These are busy days at the Sweetwood Orchard. Mary and I spend part of the morning tending to our apples.
The previous owners clustered four trees together down the hill in the back 40 providing us, neighbors, groundhogs, deer, birds and worms with both red delicious apples and granny green apples. There might even be some macintosh.
Last year they ripened when we were in Florida and by the time we got to them, they were in bad shape. It was a sad harvest. With an earlier vacation this year, we spied some ripening apples and harvested a few pounds today.
Those VERY red things in the basket are actually tomatoes from the neighbors who were nice enough to bring us some of THEIR harvest. We sent them home with a bag of apples!
Mary plans to make both applesauce and apple pie this year!
The downside: With vacation over, apples ripening, football training camp over and schools opening everywhere, reality is starting to set in. Summer is nearly over! Sigh...
More later,
Mark
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