Apple Picking Time

Every fall I take the girls to a nearby orchard to pick apples. We end up with a giant sack of various types of apples - current favorites are Honey Crisp and Cortlands - that find their way into school lunches, pies, apple crips and tack boxes as treats for the horses. So this Sunday after riding lessons, we headed out to Pine Hill Orchard in Hammond to pick our fill. The girls' friend Hannah came along and the three of them spent more time climbing trees and sampling than picking. It was a beautiful September afternoon, too bad there were so few apples. The weather this year was very hard on the areas' apple trees, so we weren't able to get our usual amount. Still, a good time was had by all, and it's not so much the apples and the experience. We'll be back again next year, hopefully mother nature will be a bit more generous with her apple crop.