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What the ??? on the house??? I hope they aren't going to build some huge monstrosity!!

THE HOUSE is gone? Good grief.
Also, blanch and freeze the peaches before the horrid little bugs can get them. Or make a whole mess o' cobbler. Come to think of it, it's getting to be peach pickin' season at our favorite farm too...

Hi Ryan! What is the interesting hat of which you speak?

Kristin, I'm afraid the "interesting hat" is one that's being designed on the fly, so no pattern exists. You can see a picture of the swatch on Monday's post.

Fill a drinking glass (or mason jar) with about 1/2 inch of sweet liqueur. Put a funnel into the glass. The fruit flies will swarm towards it, go down the funnel and then drown. Meanwhile, give the peaches a good washing and drying and put them in the fridge until you figure out what to do with them.

I hate fruit flies. I'm not the best at housework, so I tend to get some once every year or so.

What I do is take a small bowl and fill it with vinegar (I use cider vinegar but have equally good results with white vinegar - balsamic is too good for the little buggers). I then cover the bowl with a bit of plastic wrap and cut a couple of small holes. They go in, drown themselves, and eventually they are all gone. Little bleaters!

The other great fruit fly trap for those of us who prefer to drink our liquor instead of offer it to little nasty buggers who make our lives miserable: fill a small glass with cider vinegar, put a film of very tightly pulled Saran Wrap over the top of the glass (so tight you can't see any wrinkles...think facelift gone horribly wrong) and poke small holes in the plastic with a finely sharpened pencil tip. The flies go in but they don't come out cause they's not too smaht, see...

I have three such flytraps in my kitchen right now, and within a day have trapped forty flies. Blech. But not a drop of liquor was wasted on those little bastards. Put the liquor on the peaches and flambé them...much better use of the stuff. A little ice cream, and you've got yourself dessert.

Those are some beautiful peaches - I drive home past a great shop that advertises "chin-drippin' peaches". One day VERY soon, I'm stopping. And those fruit-fly cures sound great, I'm writing that down. For my part, I have the Shimmering Crystal Cylinder of Death for the Japanese Beetles (mason jar of water with dishsoap in it). Works like a charm, although the process of knocking them OFF of my precious hollyhocks INTO said jar is tedious. Now I need a peach.

Peach crisp. Mmmmmm.

Yuck fruit flies! And, ummm, THE HOUSE is gone???? A little background would totally calm my curiousity. Which is completely aflame right now.....

Was it the morning sex neighbors?