Picking Apricots

We went to New Plymouth and picked apricots & plums from Margie's trees. Tiffani took lots of pictures while Judy & I picked... and picked.... I got way more then I could use!

Margie's dog - followed us (Tiffani) around.

The apricot trees were full! 

VERY full!

We picked several baskets full. So much that I sent my extra's over to Terri.

Purple plum tree - not ready yet, but those were big & really nice looking.

White Plums - this tree was abundantly full also. Both Judy & I picked a basketful. 

Pretty flowers at Margie's place. 

Margie has a great tree for climbing, and we wrangled the camera away from Tiffani long enough to get a picture of her in the tree.

This apricot tree was down the driveway, so on my way out I stopped and got a "few" of these. The color is beautiful and they looked like mini peaches.

These are the "mini peaches". When I was describing them to Mom, she thought it could be a peach-cot. These were sweet and very yummy. I pureed these seperate from the rest and will make just apricot jam out of it. (63 apricots - 4 1/2 cups of puree.)

One of the piles of pitted apricots! I pureed & froze enough apricots to make 6 batches of jam - got to wait for the peaches though, so I can make some peach/apricot jam. (68 mixed sizes/types apricots - 9 cups of puree.)

These are the white plums - I used about 30 of them and got enough to make a batch of jam. I still have enough left to make probably 2 more - but I think I'll share some of them. I got the feeling I'd be the only one eating it!

Plum Jam - I thought it was good!

Today, I will do some baking for our BBQ tomorrow night. We signed up for dessert so I'd thought I'd bring a mixed cookie / bars platter. And if I'm real motivated I will make another batch of plum jam & then share the rest of the plums. Don't want them to go bad.