Got Apples?

As I sit here typing this post I wish there was a way I could send you the smell of baking apples; cause that is what our apartment smells like right now. Another great weekend to report on; and this was all fall. Jaci and I had planned a fall weekend a couple of weeks ago; but I didn't think it would become this successful.

Saturday Justin and I drove down to Corvallis and spent the afternoon picking many many apples at Russ' parents farm with Russ and Liz (Jaci's coworker). And what is the easiest way to pick apples you may ask? Well I learned you use the chainsaw to prune the tree at the same time. Russ' dad wanted to trim the oversized apple tree and we didn't want to waste the opportunity. We collected a ton of apples.

After picking apples and felling tree branches a good way to relax may be to sit around and watch a movie, but not this weekend. Russ, Jaci, Liz, Justin and I went to Junction City for a haunted corn maize! It was excellent; well worth the ginormous line for tickets. The maze was huge; corn as high as an elephants eye in fact, and it had a pirate theme; with a pirate ship in the maze. It was a lot of fun, with good scare factor.

Next morning back to work. Russ and Jaci picked up the apple cider press and everyone got to work. Cleaning, cutting, grinding, pressing and bottling cider. In the end we made 15 gallons of oh so yummy cider and still a pile of apples for baking. Couldn't get much more fall perfect than this. I look forward to Thanksgiving to see how the hard cider turns out.

• Michelle's pictures (regular camera)
• Justin's pictures (iPhone)
• Lone Pine Farms Corn Maze