Apple Harvesting Day!

Yesterday we celebrated our 30th Anniversary by having our annual Apple Harvesting Day!  We had to do it then.  The birds were starting to make short work of some of our apples.  We got lots of apples that are good for just plain eating, and we got two BIG boxes of apples that have worm holes, bruises or bird pecks that we can use for drying, juicing or bottling after we cut out the bad spots.

We had to get a fruit picker to get some of the high ones this year.  Our trees are getting really tall.

This thing isn't as easy as it looks.  We still haven't really gotten the hang of it.  Mostly we just knocked the apples down with it.

Success!  We got some!

Stopping for a lunch break.  Of course, we had ...apples!

We've filled up every available bit of refrigerator space with apples!

We've got more apples stored in the house.  We even have two more HUGE boxes for cutting up.

I didn't rotate this one before I put it in the blog.  This is how many apples we dried BEFORE apple harvesting day.  I hope you all like them, because we're going to be sending some your way.  We've only touched the tip of the iceberg in drying apples this year.