"Never trust a June peach"

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...said R, flippantly, but I suppose he's right, at least for the peaches we get around here. They go from hard, to disturbingly chewy, to wrinkly and bad, with no stage ever approximating ripeness. But they looked so pretty in the store!

Meanwhile, D. has completed the third grade, and I'll probably get a tuition waiver for fall term.