Showing posts with label apples. Show all posts
Showing posts with label apples. Show all posts

Thursday, November 3, 2011

Apple Picking

We have 3 very lovely apple trees in our backyard. And this fall we have about a gazillion apples. We have made applesauce, apple crisp, dried apples, enjoyed them plain, shared with neighbors and we still have about 500. So I had this semi-fabulous idea, if I do say so myself, that I would take about 20 or so, and throw them out front to feed the deers that we see from time to time...
... In no time at all I made a new BFF when a little buck starting visiting our yard at dawn and dusk. The kids loved it! And then a week or so later, my BFF brought a buddy--a big-daddy buck and we just loved checking in on them twice a day.
Cue the bunnies.
Now we have 7 or 8 of the most adorable bunnies rotate in and out of our yard at any given time munching on the apples. So the twins and I pick a bag full of apples every day and feed them to our buddies. And then we watch them. Or the twins play in the yard while the animals munch away and watch us.
Today I wanted Brian to snap a few pics of us doing our favorite fall routine. But the twins just wanted to be dork-fishes. Man, I love them.

For the love, the Swishers will be on a farm in no time.

Mark my words.


Thursday, October 7, 2010

Apple-Picking Time

I love fall. I don't love that it started in August here this year, but now that it is October, I love it. Our new house has 4 apple trees and they gave us tons of apples this year. This week we picked the apples and made applesauce. The twins helped every step of the way. And they have said 'applesauce' about a gazillion times. Does anything smell better than making fresh applesauce???






By the way, our Pearl did enjoy the applesauce, but not nearly as much as eating the apple whole like a big girl. Whole apples are her new favorite snack. Check out the work she does on them...