Fall Fun-Cider time

Fall brings beautiful color and apple cider! Chris, Ellie, Mike and his friend Leslie went to the farm with me to pick apples and press the best cider to be had. Picking is the most fun, but some are too high for Ellie's reachMike and Leslie figured out a plan.

Leslie picked the apple and passed it to Mike who passed it to Ellie who put it in the bucket.

After washing the apples, they go in the chopper. The pieces fall into a cloth bag in the press.



Now it's time to turn the press and squeeze all that good juice out!

Now it's time to drink the rewards. Oh so good!

Labor Day Play and Harvest

I was invited to join Teri and the girls at the circus Saturday morning. I left Pat at home to polish his homily. See my shutterfly page for pictures of circus: http://loryspics.shutterfly.com/ Saturday evening was a wonderful experience. I shared music with fellow christians to help call and lead God's people in our liturgy and enjoying my wonderful hubby's homily during Mass. We then came home to a dinner of left overs and farm fresh veggies. Today, Sunday, while Pat is at church I will be figuring out how to process and preserve some of this produce. (missing in the pictures are 3 more cucumbers, bell peppers, zucchini, tomatillas, and green beans)

I made salsa to freeze (tomotoes, tomatillas, onions, peppers), eggrolls for lunch (green cabbage, some carrots & onions), and canned homemade pickle relish (cucumbers, bell peppers, onions). We did fit in a short walk in between rain showers with, of course, an ice cream cone.

Egg rolls for lunch and crock full of salsa-Pat and I like the cooked salsa.10 jars of pickle relish.

Still a lot to process, but that will have to wait until tomorrow, I'm clocking out to watch a movie with my hubby!

Over 50 and my 1st blog

Since I'm over 50 now, I decided it's time to start my own blog. I also decided to have a midlife purchase-or at least blame one on my husband. As a fan of adventure, and after receiving a commitment to taking me on more adventures...I helped my hubby get a new toy. We were going out to dinner Friday night to celebrate our anniversary (26 wonderful years). On the way to dinner, I reminded Pat that he had wanted to show me something at the Harley place. It was still early, so we stopped in before dinner. They had sold one of the bikes Pat wanted to show me....but! they were putting together another one in the back. Of course, they didn't expect it to take long to sell either. If we were interested, we should take a look at it. I told Pat we had time to look at it...until I saw the color. Oh, was it beautiful. My favorite color! I was good and didn't say anything right away. We calmly talked about the pros and cons...It was soooo pretty! Pat came up with all the reasons it would be a good fit for us. And they had a deck of cards the same color with cool lightning that is fun to watch when you shuffle them. Guess what, they threw in the deck of cards! We brought it home Sunday. To more misadventure in the 2nd half a century of my life!