We celebrated the start of fall with a trip to a new apple orchard. New to us anyway. They had a petting zoo and delicious homemade donuts (YUM!!) and tons of apples. We went with the neighbors, brought a picnic lunch, and had a great time. Now we are thinking of ways to use two giants bags of apples. Today we made apple pie and caramel apples, tomorrow will be applesauce and apple butter… hopefully some apple spice cake in there too!

This smart cow knows that the food comes from that little machine. She was right there whenever a kid went over and she stayed afterwards and licked the machine! Even inside the door. Smartie cow.

I tried to get a picture of them together, but this is the best I got. Some day maybe they will both smile and pose at the same time for me!

The kids ate lots of apples. Well, we all ate lots of apples! When I was packing the picnic in the morning, Lex said, "Why are you packing lunch? Can't we just eat apples for lunch?" :)

Robina was helping Eve pick apples (while I took pictures!) A few minutes prior to this picture we saw a snake slithering around. Moments before this picture Eve dropped an apple on the ground and said, "We'll just let the snake eat the apple." Robina is laughing at the inadvertent biblical reference.

"It's like a pocket" said Eve, when she realized she could carry apples in her skirt. Like the fancy outfit she chose for apple picking?
i would be pretty nervous about a goat on a table too. silly goat, you don’t belong on a table!
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