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Keeping Up....
11 September 2008
Gilcrease Orchard
Wow. What a fun morning!
I dropped Megan off with my good friend Jennie around 9am. Then the boys and I were off to the orchard. They had never seen apples hanging from a tree before, and were so excited to get this chance! Before finding the apples, we found many other cool things.
The first thing we found was zucchini. Many of these vegetables were HUGE. I never would have guessed that they grew that big. Much to the boys dismay, I wouldn't let them bring home the biggest one. But we still got a good sized one that came home with us.
This is AJ with one of the biggest ones.
Next was eggplants. I had no intention at all of picking any eggplants, but they were SO pretty hanging there that the boys just couldn't resist. So they each picked two, and we left 2 of them with Jennie.
Isn't it pretty?
Climbing through to get the best one:
So proud:
Next we were looking for tomatoes. I was really hoping to find some, but the ones we found weren't ripe yet, so we left them alone. We did, however find a nice cantelope and a weird watermelon. AJ picked the watermelon from the vine, and although it looks really strange, he HAD to bring it home. We'll cut it tonight or tomorrow and see if it's any good. The cantelope will need a few days to ripen, but I'm sure it will taste awesome.
Here's the best picture I got of AJ and his watermelon. Unfortunately, you can't really see how weird it is.
Our last, and most fun stop was the apple trees. It was difficult at first and we got such a slow start. Many of the trees were empty, and it was difficult to see the apples since they were green. But eventually we found a couple of really full trees, and we came home with probably 20 pounds of apples. Jennie got some of those too. ;)
This picture was actually taken before we were done. You can see that we got LOTS of apples!
We'll be making an apple pie or two this weekend, and probably some apple bread. If I can find a simple enough recipe, we'll also try to make some applesauce.
It was such a fun field trip. The boys had a great time picking the apples, and AJ even said, "I'm so glad we are homeschooled, mom!" That comment made the whole day completely worth it.
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