Jake, Annie and I spent the day Saturday with Granny & Papa at an apple orchard in Wilkesboro (actually, in Moravian Falls). What a beautiful place! The webpage refers to it as a "neighborhood orchard." You know that song, "Over the hills & Through the Woods?" You know, on the way to grandma's house? Well, if you consider your neighborhood to be over the hills, through the woods, up a mountain, along several one-way curving dirt roads, and ending just past a stream with no other houses around...then, yes, it was in a neighborhood...
Jake's ancestor, Isaac Jacob Quigley (for whom Jake was named), owned an apple orchard in Michigan. I told Jake this, so as soon as we got to the orchard, he hopped out and asked where Isaac Jacob was. I told him that he lived at least 100 years ago, which made Jake realize, "You mean he's dead??"
Thinking that maybe we'd stumbled across something potentially painful to discuss, I was worried about how to proceed. But Jake took it in stride, saying, "Okay, then let's go look at his grave." I never quite convinced him that we weren't actually at the same apple orchard owned by his great-great-great grandfather, but I guess that's not important...
We got to tour the apple orchard, where Jake got to pick two apples. The Quigleys picked this orchard specifically for a type of apple they've recently discovered: the Honeycrisp. What a good apple! Just the right mix of sweet and tart. Granny & Papa purchased two bushels of apples, which roughly translates to "20,000 apples," according to Jake. They gave us a little less than half of those, so we've been having apples for breakfast, lunch, dinner and dessert (this is no exaggeration. I'm not wasting those apples!). Tonight I'm going to make an apple pie and apple muffins for breakfast. Overnight I'm going to let apples cook in the crockpot to make applesauce for Annie. Tomorrow Jake is taking a bag of apples to his teacher.
We are overflowing with apples. It's the perfect time of year for it. Hopefully I'll be able to post pictures from Saturday soon.
3 Comments:
You go Becky! Aren't you Miss Impressive, baking pies and muffins and such ;-) Now you've got me craving apple pie. Durn you! LOL
Man I am coming to your house!! Yummy! Hey you can always make some Apple Pie Moonshine! Did you ever taste the one I had? It was really good. I will be expecting some at our next MNI! LOL
We are coming out the butt with apples too. Someone from an orchard brought apples to Danny's office and he brought home a huge bag of them. So far Klaire has bit into 4 apples this morning!! LOL
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