(Close your eyes and pretend it’s yesterday. You’ve just checked your feed reader and see this wonderful post. I was not feeling well at all yesterday except for the few hours in the afternoon so, blogging just did not happen. I put that under “extenuating circumstances.” Today will have two blog posts separated by 12 or so hours. In short, it’s NaBloPoMo which means I’m going to try to blog daily. Hopefully I’ll last longer than my 14 day streak last year.)
About a month ago, we went apple picking just north of my in-laws, at Brown’s Orchards. It took me a good two weeks to get a chance to use Matt’s computer to pull them off the camera and edit them and another two to finally getting around to posting them here. I am a wee bit slow, sometimes.
There’s a few things you should know about apple picking:
1. 2 baskets of apples is about 20 pounds worth
2. 20 pounds of apples makes at least 20 jars of apple sauce, two apple tarts, and two apple pies
3. Apples last forever if you store them in paper bags in the fridge
4. It’s harder than you think to tell which apples are ripe and which are not (while still on the tree)
5. Only having four teeth (and none of them in the front of your mouth) does not prevent you from being an apple seller – though you will force customers to question your penchant for “bitin’ into one to see how good it tastes”
