Apple Picking Day Today!

Well, the day dawned cool and raining in torrents, so we had Blueberry Coffee Cake for breakfast, sipped hot beverages, and waited.  Around 11 a.m., the rain stopped and the sun peeked out from behind the clouds.  Boots and hat on, Farmer Don grabbed his trusty rake (for grabbing tall branches), and headed out into his orchard (he planted every one of the 8 fruit trees in our mini-orchard!).

We collected a basket of apples, and he retired to the kitchen, peeled and cored them with his cool new peeler/corer, and then I froze the apple slices for two pies we are delivering for a memorial service on Sunday.  Then, Don headed back outside, and picked as many of the remaining apples as he could reach.  Tomorrow I'll hold the ladder while he climbs up a little higher and shakes the top branches to force the apples down.

We were admiring the large wooden apple box tonight filled with the most beautiful crop of Liberty apples we have ever grown.  We're proud farmers, living the Slow Life.