Georgia is known as the Peach state. And yes, I know that California and South Carolina both grow more peaches but we are still called that! Now because of that, there are quite a few signs with companies that have "Peach" in their names so they will have drawings of a peach. Unfortunately, they sometimes look more like giant "bums" as they say in England! ("Behinds" as we had to say in the South as we were growing up.) Why, sometimes our car tags will have a peach as a background...and I do wonder if anyone ever looks carefully at these things. Am I the only one who sees this resemblance? I find this amusing!
Those peaches, by the way, were delicious and yes, they were grown in Georgia!
I tried my best to get a photo of Dansby Swanson flying around the bases...very often he will lose his batting helmet! I treasure the memory of my Dad calling me in England while I was there in 2016 and telling me that I had missed Dansby Swanson hit his inside the park homerun! And if you don't know what that means...a batter hits the ball and he RACES around the bases so quickly that he makes it home before anyone can throw the ball to homeplate! It very rarely happens and my Dad just couldn't believe that they didn't mention it on the TV in England!
I found it for you. Dansby Swanson! Isn't he a cutie? By the way, very often a player can be from anywhere in the country (or Canada or Australia even!) but in this case, Dansby Swanson is a Georgia boy, through and through!
I simply have dozens of things that I want to post about...so I am sorry that I can't think well enough to get my thoughts together.
Hope you are all having a nice summer. Stay cool!
An in-the-parker is special always. And you have made me hungry for peaches. I'll have to pick some up next time I go to town.
ReplyDeleteMake sure they are ripe...if they are hard, leave them in a bowl until they are soft. The peel should come off easily, if not, they are not ripe! I am an expert on peaches! :-)
DeleteThose peachy bums look delicious! :-D
ReplyDeleteI am looking forward to reading about the dozens of things you want to post about. Don't worry - your thoughts will start sorting themselves as soon as you start writing. At least I often find that the case with myself.
Peachy Bums...that sounds like a good name for a baseball team!
DeleteThanks, my mind might sort itself out sometime, hopefully.
Ah, the many topics of summer Kay! That's why I love summer!
ReplyDeleteHello there! So nice to see your comment here, I bet you have had a lovely summer in your garden. x
DeleteI went crazy this year and ordered a subscription of Georgia peaches from the peach truck. They are delicious and we really can't buy such good peaches locally anymore. (We used to be able at Chautauqua.) But it is really too expensive and I will not be getting them next year. I'll just buy some when the truck is in my area, about twice a summer. But Georgia peaches are wonderful and, yes, they do resemble what was called ones "rear end" when I was growing up.
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed those peaches, we got them when we were in North Georgia recently. They were very good. I even took two of them and chopped them up and put them in a simple cake batter. Peach Cake, it was good!
DeleteA copy of their cookbook was with the order....My friend Karen from Nashville baked a peach cobbler with my Peach Truck peaches when we were all at Chautauqua.
DeleteMy Dad could make the best peach cobbler. The best! You can also make a cobbler with any fresh fruit or even sweet pototoes. My Dad could anyway!😄
DeleteGeorgia grown peaches are the best, with Ruston peaches a close second.
ReplyDeleteThat player is amazing!
Glad you liked Dansby too. He is a peach!
DeleteOhhh your peaches look deeeeeeelicious! Mmmmmm....
ReplyDeleteI am the kind of fan, who notices how players look. Unabashedly so!!! So I appreciate a 'cutie' like this player is. :-)
We are having a nice summer now, after that awful Heat/Humidity broke. It is soooo lovely to have windows open and be able to breathe!!!!! :-)
Ha, ha! I know a cutie when I see one!
DeleteWe are having a bit of a "cool" spell just now too, it didn't even make it to 90 degrees today!
I once knew a girl with skin like a peach.
ReplyDeleteHave you ever met a 23 year old peach?
Hey Ad Man! Nice to see your comment here but I am too tired to figure it out. Sorry!
DeleteKay, I miss talking baseball with my dad. I miss my dad and mom so much. I can almost smell those peaches. Hope you get to eat plenty of those sweet peaches. Blessings, xoxo, Susie
ReplyDeleteBaseball has been very different for me this year, the Braves lost their biggest fan in my Dad! You know all those peaches are gone now, ate the last one just last night. Delicious! xxx
DeleteI wouldn't mind making a cobbler with those lovely Georgia peaches.
ReplyDeleteAnd I love the play of words of your blog name and it also reminds me, we have a peach that is a Georgia Belle!
DeleteJust found out there's an American Baseball League here in a local park. Not a sport that's mainstream in the UK yet. Love peaches but I tend to buy nectarines now as they do not need peeled.
ReplyDeleteI have fond memories of going to my first professional baseball game, it was the Atlanta Braves of course, with my family and my Dad helped me to keep "score". All the plays have number and letter scores...if you strike out...it is the letter "K". When I expressed dismay over that, since that is my name, my Dad told me they used that letter because there is no mistaking it, nothing else like it. That was my Dad!
DeleteNow peaches...make sure you let peaches sit in a bowl until they are perfectly ripe, and then, you don't really peel them, you just kind of...prick them with a knife and the skin just comes of very easily! Maybe you know but I have friends from here that I have had to point this out to them!
Hope you are doing well these days and getting in some good walks! I have dreams to see Scotland one day, as you know!
I had to smile at what you said about peaches. I too have noticed that striking similarity! :)
ReplyDeleteIf you find something to make you smile or chuckle, I think it is always a good thing! :-)
DeleteThe weather is cool here...and I'm loving it. The summer heat will be here before we know it...as will the peaches. I love peaches, but not so much the heat of summer. :)
ReplyDeleteLee, I would dearly love to see Australia. My sister lived there in the 1980s and she adored it! Her peachy complexion was different when she came back, she was so tanned by the sun I walked right past her at airport when I picked her up upon her return. Wear hat and sunscreen!
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