Picking Apples

Picking apples...

Well, it's more like selecting but he enjoyed it all the same!

At the end of my street is an Orchid selling 10 kilos of apples for $10. In my freezer, a whole pile of cherries and blackberries given to me. In the corner of a spare room sat a dehydrator with 14 racks...

Fruit leather was calling!!!

(I was expecting seconds but they turned out to be much nicer than recent apples from the store)

So Stephannie and I got together and turned 10 kilos of fruit into 1 or 2 kilos of very tasty leather, next time we'll strain the seeds out of the black berries to get rid of the 'crunch' but the cherrie one was a winner for Chase!!!

Although Stephannie and I did most of it with little interest from the kids, they did love making twirly-whirly apples and eating as much as they liked.

(All photos are at Stephannie's.)

A Day at the Snow

On the 28th of August we headed to the snow with some of the family.

My parents made a little snowman first thing while Jony's priority was elsewhere...

SNOW CONES!

Then at some point Jony and Dad decided to turn the place into Wonka's out door factory!

And with no objections, Chase too helped himself... continuously!

Max and Jony had a heap of fun... which was nice for the both of them.

(I'm not a good sport when it comes to ice in my clothes, so I'm glad they had each other to save any temptation headed in my direction!)

This little tike just watched and laughed at them most of the time!

He tried to join in but his little fist-fulls of snow were no match for the big boys' snow balls.

We were even lucky enough to meet one of the locals!

And of course we wanted to see if some snow would make it home with us, so Jony placed a lump of snow on our windscreen and off we went... Well he lasted all the way home and overnight, but we lost him on the Highway the next morning!

It was a nice day with the family, some hot chocolates and lots of snow!

Unfortunately no photos of Mammar and Poppy to post, but I'm sure they will.

(I'm still looking forward to Summer sun, beaches and Fish & Chips, that I could do every weekend...)