Thanks everybody! We've done all the work ourselves, and it's not fancy. There is a hand pump in the back and an outhouse across the road. We have an electric generator so we do have it wired for electric and can use an electric hotplate and lamps, plus being able to watch vcr movies on rainy days and charge things like cell phones and so on (oh yeah, and Emi can even use her hair straitener which appears to be VERY IMPORTANT to her :-). We have an old antique metal icebox, and about 4 blocks of ice will handle our cooling needs for a weekend. Fancy or not, we absolutely love it. It is our getaway. Laurium is not a high stress town... but it seems like when we get out to camp, all our cares just fall away! We work hard out there, fixing things up, but we also relax totally. It is our breath of fresh air! That old red and blue camper at the end of the deck is serving us as a tool shed right now, but later this summer we'll be moving the tools elsewhere and remodeling it into a 'spare bedroom' or maybe even a 'master bedroom' as the fancy hits us :-) We also have a pop-up camper for extras to sleep in, plus my sister-in-law and her family have their pop-up out there most of the time. And we just moved in my oldest step-daughter's camper. Makes it sound like a busy place, and some weekends it is, but other weekends it's just Gary and I. Those are the absolute best weekends. Just Gary and I, or maybe the two of us plus Emi and her boyfriend, Josh.

Lilacs, I always freeze peaches that way, but I don't even cover them with honey water. I just blanch, peel, slice, soak in acidified water and pack into bags, then freeze. I use them all winter for pies and cobblers, or I take them out and make jam from them in January when the weather is cold and a jam pot is nice to stand over! Annie

Hey, I thought the same thing in my garden! What's with all the purple? I didn't realize that I had bought so many purples. Oh, that Cyclamint & the Peaches & Wine! Would you believe I only have some noid LA irises living in LA? What's with that? lol I hardly have any. Those 2 could send a plant hoarder on another binge! (Not that I would know anything about that mind you.) ;-) Rena'

Time for this post to move on down the line! I did go back and they had an amazing amount and variety of plants for $0.99, plus some larger potted items for great prices as well. I got more blueberries, and several other plants that had been on my wish list--toad lily, japanese painted fern, clematis, coneflowers, hydrangea. They had healthy looking potted fruit trees, but unfortunately the dwarf variety that I had seen last time and decided that I wanted was all gone.