Elijah poses with the 2 perfect pumpkins we harvested from our garden:
On Saturday, we headed off to South Hero to go apple picking. Elijah fell asleep in the car, so we decided to kill some time and drive around a bit. We landed here:
Yup...A fish hatchery. Neither Ed nor I had even been to one, so we decided to check it out. We were pleasantly surprised, to say the least! There was the small aquarium:
Some pretend fishing:
And bins and bins of fish fry-- just waiting to be released into the wild. Feeding them pellets out of the 25-cent machine was fun! They went wild, jumping up out of the water to try to get some food!
We took some time to enjoy the beautiful viewing pond before heading off for the orchard.
Ed and Elijah on our tractor ride out to the orchard:
We picked 32 pounds (!) of Macs, Cortlands and Vermont Golds.
I guess we went a little overboard...but it was a perfect day for picking apples!
Yesterday, Elijah and Ed harvested our winter squash- we were so thrilled with our squash bounty this year. We baked up some buttercup squash for dinner last night, and it was absolutely delicious!!!
4 comments:
Wow Sandy that looks like a lot of squash! I remember filling our trailer (twice the size of yours) in Jericho with squash on those endless days of harvesting with Dad. Nice memories! And hey, that's a lot of apples! So jealous.
Interestingly, I am working on a translation right now about a Fishery company in the Sultanate of Oman in the Middle East - it is a case study that a French professor did and he will present it at an international conference so I am translating it into English for him - I am learning A LOT about fishing and the whole catch-to-consumer process - fascinating!
32 pounds of apples! Wow, that's a lot. I know what you'll be doing soon - making pie!
Wow! Couldn't get our your squash bounty and your perfect pumpkins!
There is a picture of you with Elijah in your lap where he looks so much older! It took me by surprise!
oh look at ELI and ED walking together- Eli is like his dad's shadow- so cute
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