Tuesday, September 18, 2007

Apple Picking 07

Well! It's been a long time since any of us have updated! One Local Summer is done, and I bailed on the last meal. Onil's sister and her family came down to visit us for Labor Day and there was too much going on to make sure everything we ate was locally produced. We did have a Cowboy BBQ (much like our Luau BBQ) and most of what we ate was local anyway. We'll do pictures of that whenever we get through everything -- between the Cowboy BBQ, Knoebels, boat racing, and just general sitting around, we took like a billion pictures that weekend. It's going to be a lot to go through, is what I'm saying.

This past weekend, though, we went apple picking. We wound up with 37½ pounds of apples. What are we going to do with all of those apples? Make 37½ awesome pounds of apple sauce, that's what. And maybe a pie or two. We went to Cherry Hill Orchards, south of Lancaster city. Here are our pictures:


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Onil and Anna, waiting for the fun to start:
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Faith and Amy, walking around and picking apples:
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Anna and Onil wanted me to do a perspective shot:
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They also wanted to get some shots of apples in mid-flight, so they chucked apples up in the air and took like a billion pictures:
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Onil Appleseed:
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I'm not sure why, but there was a corn field in between two rows of trees...
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So someone (probably Onil) got the bright idea that we should lay down and look like we got run over like the corn.
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Children of the Corn:
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We always get a picture of Amy crying by signs telling you that you're not allowed to do stuff. Here's the latest in a series. (We should make a photo album just of pictures of Amy crying at signs.)
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And then we have Amy getting up and looking like she's farting:
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This is the sign you see when you're leaving. Bye until next year, Cherry Hill Orchards!
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8 comments:

j.elliot said...

one starving musician came by to say: 37lbs of apples and no peaches?


j.e.

Faith said...

Not when one of us is highly allergic to peaches. :o)

Anonymous said...

Yup, no peaches for me. Nor apricots or nectarines. They all three make my throat constrict and my lips get swollen so it looks like a sausage about to explode.

Anonymous said...

Actually I'm also allergic to raw apples. So I shan't be able to have any apples with cheese.

Cooked apples I'm fine with though. I can have apples in sauce, butter or pie form.

meresy_g said...

That is a great orchard. Lots of variety. And good plants sometimes too. Did you also stop at the Danville Corn Wagon just up the road on 741?

Faith said...

No.... what's the Danville Corn Wagon?

meresy_g said...

THe Danville Corn wagon is just a produce stand, north up 741 from the orchards. They have great stuff and really cheap. Sometimes I drive past there and there will be thirty cars, of course that is in the height of sweetcorn season. I think they are cheap too. I think they were selling a dozen hears this year for $1.75.

Brian Landis said...

I built a website for the New Danville Corn Wagon so check it out at www.TheCornWagon.com and see what they have for sale. They have some of the best farm fresh sweet corn and other fresh produce in Lancaster County I think! I used to like just 3 miles south of there.
Brian Landis