Exciting Day

Today I took the girls to Detering Orchards to pick apples. I have been wanting to go there for some time now (2+ years), but haven't made it out there until now! And I am so glad I did. It was wonderful. Rows of apple trees of different varieties and being out in the country. All I can say is ahhhh. The girls enjoyed themselves emensly and we got to visit some friends from church. They have remarkable prices, I thought I was going to be spening about $10 easy considering the prices at other farms and the Farmers Market. Boy was I wrong, try $5 for about 20 apples, and some the size of 2 fists. It was neat to meet the farm dogs, a couple of 10 year old yellow labs. Can't wait to go back for their Apple Daze next month! Looking forward to fresh warm cider at the farms.....yummy! Oh don't forget the warm apple cider doughnuts.

Well earlier tonight Frank helped Zoe pick some corn from the garden. They brought them in and both started to shed the husks. Frank warned Zoe she might see a bug while doing this. While I am in the other room I hear two blood curdling screams , the second longer than the first. It was attack of the pincher bug part 2. Only this time it just fell to the floor and got squashed. She got scared after that and didn't want to help with the corn anymore.
Goodness she is turning into such a girlie girl so fast. Well that Zoe for ya I guess.

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Friday 9-14-07

Meet Cody, (9-17: Her name has changed to Tiger now) as Zoe has so named her. She showed up on our porch Tuesday and has decided to stay. Not sure how old she is, around 3 months is my guess. She gets along great with everyone (except Bubba). Her and Smokey like to play quite a bit, it's fun to watch the old man play again.

Well no new Zoe anticks today, sorry. But I thought I would share a Zoe-ism.

~She calls grilled cheese sandwiches girl cheese~

Our garden has been doing really well. We planted tomatoes again, corn and pumpkins. Trying to keep things simple until we get more experience in the garden. The raspberries did really well this year and we got a few concord grape bunches this year. Hopefully next year the grapes will better. I poorly composted some pumkins from last year and got a variety of smaller pumkins from white to orange to gourds! I also planted some large pumkin seeds recently, we'll see if planted in time. The corn did better than I expected, I will definately be planting it again. Oh my the tomatoes.... so many! But the snails have been getting to them >:(

Well I am going to try to get a job at the hospital, despite the fact that I haven't been able to get into the class I wanted to take in coralation with the job. I just couldn't get the time slot scheduled I needed for the placement testing. Hopefully I can still get the job with the intention of taking the class next spring. That is all the is new here pretty much. Have a great weekend all!