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Guess What Terry Did?

Ally is getting older and slower and is heading into retirement, the easy life, sleeping in the house on her fluffy bed....so meet her replacement!

 Lupin!

 

Fall Wildlife

Well, with the fall weather, and the cooler temperatures, the wildlife makes it's way through the yard eating the last of the garden and flowers..  BTW the dog is in the house laying next to the fireplace enjoying her retirement!!

Halloween Treats

I just made some cake balls for Halloween Treats. Very easy to do and quite pretty. Watch out Kids, you are getting these for Halloween, see ya on Monday.....

Cider Time!!

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Although this year was not a bumper year for apples, we did round up about 120lbs worth to try out the press. Thanks cousin Dean for the press. This press was in the barn back in Iowa at Cousin Deans place. When we went back to Georgia last November we stopped by and picked it up. Terry re-furbished it, fixed up some of the old wood pieces that were broken and spruced it up....so we are pressing the first apples through it!
The bottle of Brandy is ready for the first juices to fill the cup!!



Rush is in charge of the pressing part.

Mom, Jeanne and I (Damon did a turn as well) cut apples and did a bit of quality control.


The boys were in charge of the actually pressing. Damon fed the apples in, Terry pushed them into the hopper, Seth turned the chopper and Rush pressed. Quite a functional operation. We went through the apples in no time flat. We got about 3 gallons of juice total. We were all happy....a beautiful day....fresh cider....and chicken noodle soup and toasted sandwiches. It was a great day.

Plum Harvest

We have the BEST plum tree, it is a Satsuma, and this year it out did itself with big beautiful plums.



This is a picture of the plum cut open and one plum filled Emily's hand.

Emily picket out some of the biggest most beautiful for a close up.


As you can see, we picked three big boxes of these beauties!!

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