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Oct. 17th, 2009 07:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
holytoastrYesterday? Kinda lame. I spent 5 hours with a bunch of other coordinators in the office de-duping records. By the end of the day, I felt like my eyes were going to bleed. And we didn't even get through half of them! It was terrible.
Today was significantly better.
Despite the rain, I went apple picking with Allicia and her fiance Rich. It was a lot of fun! And the rain actually stopped right as we started picking and didn't start again until we got back.
We went to Stribling Orchard. It wasn't my first choice but ended up being really nice. Allicia was late, so I drank a cup of warm apple cider while sitting in front of a big fire. Not a bad way to kill the time.
We got there pretty late in the season, so most of the low hanging fruits were gone. But that was ok, because they gave us this tall arm tool to grab the apples at the top of the trees!
It worked pretty well except when you'd accidentally knock another apple off the tree and down onto your head.
I ended up buying way more apples than one human could possible eat. Plus I got little apple pies (apple sticks!), apple cider, and local honey. I had to flee the store before I ended up buying more.
At least I mostly picked tiny two-bite apples, so those I can snack on each day. They are perfect for when you are just a teeny bit hungry, but not hungry enough to make something.
After the orchard, we went to Naked Mountain Vineyard for wine tasting and cheese. I am too much of a lightweight for such things and don't like wine anyway, so I just took part in the cheese.
The cheese was Amish, I think.
The vineyard was full of these huge creepy looking beetles. None of them bothered me directly, but they were still pretty freaky.
Home now and happy to be warm and dry. I might warm up one of the little apple pies, pour myself a glass of cider, and get some quality cartoon watching time in before ben wake up from his nap.
Today was significantly better.
Despite the rain, I went apple picking with Allicia and her fiance Rich. It was a lot of fun! And the rain actually stopped right as we started picking and didn't start again until we got back.
We went to Stribling Orchard. It wasn't my first choice but ended up being really nice. Allicia was late, so I drank a cup of warm apple cider while sitting in front of a big fire. Not a bad way to kill the time.
We got there pretty late in the season, so most of the low hanging fruits were gone. But that was ok, because they gave us this tall arm tool to grab the apples at the top of the trees!
It worked pretty well except when you'd accidentally knock another apple off the tree and down onto your head.
I ended up buying way more apples than one human could possible eat. Plus I got little apple pies (apple sticks!), apple cider, and local honey. I had to flee the store before I ended up buying more.
At least I mostly picked tiny two-bite apples, so those I can snack on each day. They are perfect for when you are just a teeny bit hungry, but not hungry enough to make something.
After the orchard, we went to Naked Mountain Vineyard for wine tasting and cheese. I am too much of a lightweight for such things and don't like wine anyway, so I just took part in the cheese.
The cheese was Amish, I think.
The vineyard was full of these huge creepy looking beetles. None of them bothered me directly, but they were still pretty freaky.
Home now and happy to be warm and dry. I might warm up one of the little apple pies, pour myself a glass of cider, and get some quality cartoon watching time in before ben wake up from his nap.
