Well, it's been too long since I've updated. Here are a few things I should have posted forever ago:
Our garden this year was okay. I'm not quite sure we got the $100 of produce that we spent, but it was still delicious. The best thing we grew was brandywine tomatoes. We had one plant, and the first harvest was a disaster. They never turn really red like other tomatoes, so we let them rot on the plant. Luckily we got a few others, and they were phenomenal. I highly recommend them. All was well until the end of the season when something decided ruin the rest of our tomatoes. Oh well.
Our zucchini and squash plants also met an early death- aphids. Gross.
Bailey got her ears pierced over Labor Day. She had been asking about it for months and months. When she saw a little baby at church with her ears pierced, she was convinced. When they showed her the selection of earrings, of course she picked the super plain gold balls. With a little persuasion, she picked the pink "princess" earrings. I was expecting her to cry after the first one, but I was not expecting her to scream bloody murder like she did. Mike and I had to hold her down for the second earring because she decided that she didn't want the second one. All is well now, and she is glad she did it.
Mike has had a great couple of months. He did radiology and anesthesiology, and was often done really early. On one of those days, we went to Cooper's Apple Cider Mill in Bucyrus. 
The name was a little deceiving. They don't actually make apple cider. However, they do make over 50 different types of jams and butters. And they use a wood burning stove to do it. The tour probably wasn't worth the drive- it was only two rooms. It was still fun to see and try the wide variety of jellies, including dandelion.
We also went to Lawrence apple orchards in Marion. There we picked 23 lbs. of apples for $8. Avery had the time of her life. Bailey got bored after a while, but Avery could have picked them forever. It was adorable. We picked red delicious, idared, and melrose apples. We weren't sure if we could use that many apples, but we did, quickly. We made apple crisp, apple cookies, caramel apples and ate a lot of apples.
We love fall in Ohio.
4 comments:
how fun. A while ago you said mike had to decide what kind of medicine he wants to do, has he picked? and what did he pick?
your garden experience sounds like mine--except I tend to kill things....big girl getting her ears pierced, we still haven't done that with Alyisa, when she is 12 and she can take care of them herself, that's now in less than a year!
We went to that Coopers Cider Mill and we didn't think it was that worth the drive either. But, it was still fun. Although, they were making apple cider when we went, I wonder why they aren't doing that anymore?
Yeah Fall in Ohio!!! Also, I love the story about Bailey getting her ears pierced!!
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