Wha-whaaaat?

[angledge]

hotpantsgalore started a peach stand last weekend. She bought a tent shelter, a folding table, a cooler (for drinks for sale), some signs ("FREDERICKSBURG PEACHES"), & 5 half-bushels of peaches. Then she found a place in front of an out of business Chuck E. Cheese & started selling. 20 half-bushel boxes & 2 days later, she had paid off her initial investment, made a few hundred bucks, & gotten bitten by the Peach Bug.

Now she's waking up early (WHAT?), negotiating deals directly with the peach orchards, hiring former classmates, & opening up one, maybe two new stands for this weekend. My fiance now has scheduled to purchase 50 half-bushels of peaches for the weekend. At about 65 peaches per half-bushel box, that's over 3,000 peaches.

I, on the other hand, have been banished to East Texas, where the high temperature today hit 106 degrees F. Working on a former creosote treatment pit, basking in the mothball smell of naphthalene, I caught myself thinking a few times, Man, a fresh peach sure would taste great right now....

In other news, I had chicken-fried steak for dinner & it was not entirely awful.

Comments

[marasca.livejournal.com]

This is, uh, rather unexpected. Cool, but unexpected.

Dare I ask what happens when peach season is over?

(I was pleased to see peaches at the farmers market this evening, and had one for dessert! Like Krick, I don't like the fuzz so I peel them. I prefer nectarines, but they're harder to find outside of the grocery store.)

[angledge.livejournal.com]

We will sell the peach stand (minus the signs) to a couple of interested buyers, who will use it for other produce seasons (berries, corn, pumpkins, etc.)

We're also thinking about just keeping it. A pop-up tent & a folding table? Both of those are useful to have around.