It's that time of year again, time for the 3rd Annual HCA (Hamilton Christian Academy) annual apple picking day. Each year we meet at the Brion's orchard to pick apples from their lovely McIntosh Apple trees. This was actually the first year Danielle was big enough to "help"-and Daddy and Bubba were off to a clients house. Erick helped out again this year-what a trooper to drag himself out of bed at 8am on a Saturday. I'm still battling this cold and feeling crappy overall but managed to snap some photos and pick some apples. We sell them for fundraising to people who like canning, making pies, and APPLE DAYS coming up! We usually can raise about a Thousand dollars which is great, and the Brions are happy to have their trees picked. It's a big job, they have well over 50 trees.
Danielle, ever the princess, gets a push from Tim. Her chariot's batteries were dead.
Erick joins in the fun! He gets the ones beyond my reach (even with the 8ft ladders!). Still not feeling well, we lasted only a couple of hours. This year the apples are pretty small and quite a few had worms. (Organic no pesticides so those varmits had their fill on the nice big apples!) What a fun Saturday! Now mommy gets to go home and nap! We have another weekend of picking coming up. There are so many we can't finish in 1 day!
We also stopped by to feed the ducks, and picked up some crickets for Spots (the frog)-so an eventful Saturday, but thankfully, back home before 1pm. Ha, still lots of day left to sleep.
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Fun! Fresh picked apples make the best pies! I'm glad the kids enjoyed it. I was half expecting to see the gymbo apple clothing. =)
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