Yesterday's exploratory trip to Ontario was to find the Wal*Mart Supercenter to stock up on supplies and to compare diesel fuel prices of gas stations in Oregon and Idaho. Oregon won hands down, $2.89 to $3.05 in Idaho. Hurricane Katrina hit the Northwest, too. Isn't it strange to be pleased to pay $2.89 for diesel fuel?
On the way home we saw a sign for the West Wind Produce Company advertising peaches so we had to stop there. We'll eat peaches until they come out our ears if we can find good ones and we've been fortunate this summer to have access to some wonderful Washington peaches. There was no visible sales area outside the set of buildings at West Wind so we interrupted a pair of gentlemen who were talking to each other out front and one of them invited us into the building while he got some peaches for us. This building was their fruit handling section and they were in the middle of sorting, grading, sizing and packing plums. The temptation to insert "Peter Piper picked and packed a peck of purple plums" is just too great, sorry. So we enjoyed watching the fruit packing operation while we waited for our peaches and nectarines to be bagged and brought out for us. Luscious looking fruit and at a very reasonable price; it pays to take the road less traveled sometimes.
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