Cheryl - July 13, 2000

July 13, 2000

Movin' to the country
I'm gonna eat a lot of peaches
I'm movin' to the country
I'm gonna eat me a lot of peaches
-- Peaches, The Presidents of the United States of America

I think I'm gonna have to eat me a lot of peaches...my "fruit salad" tree has moved on from its poor showings of plums and apricots and is bending over with the weight of all the peaches ripening. These are Babcock peaches--white flesh, very fragrant and tasty, but they bruise if you look at them crosseyed.

If I had my little way
I'd eat peaches every day
Sun soakin' bulges in the shade

Peaches are my second favorite fruit (Bing cherries, dark, ripe and crunchy, are my absolute favorite). I actually tend to prefer yellow peaches, but I couldn't get a multi-graft tree with a yellow peach on it. This year, these are pretty good, though. It's the first year I've had a good crop of them--last year I think I got two peaches, but then the tree had only been in the ground eighteen months or so.

So I'm taking a bunch of my peaches and making a peach pie today...the kind where the peaches aren't cooked so you get all that great peachy flavor.

Poke my finger down inside
Make a little room for an ant to hide
Nature's candy in my hand or a can or a pie

Skip the can. Give me fresh peaches, in hand or in a pie, any day.

In other news, Wayne and I are in the midst of website upheaval--we're getting DSL at home and updating our website and moving it to a new domain. That is, assuming we can agree on a new domain name. I'm getting seriously close to throwing a dictionary at him. Wayne's insisting on a domain that meets all of these criteria:

It has to be .com (not .org or .net)
It has to be short.
It shouldn't have "renshaw" in it (he works for other architects and wants to be able to pretend he's not a separate contractor in those cases). (of course, as soon as someone were to look at our website, the game would be up but whaddoiknow?)
It would be great if it had something to do with his logo (see below).
It shouldn't have to be spelled over the phone.
It has to scan well--he doesn't want to stumble over it when he says it.

Now, all of these criteria make sense, but I really wonder what we're going to be able to find that covers all of them. Does anyone have any ideas? Please help, before DNS (Domain Naming Syndrome) wrecks our marriage! :)

Cheryl