We had a big weekend two weeks ago, going to the apple orchard on Saturday and to Sleepy Hollow State Park on Sunday. And there are a few other pictures from before and after to admire!
We filled up a small sack of Honeycrisp and a big bag of Macintosh very quickly and then wandered around the premises - it was such a beautiful day! Then I made everyone listen to "After Apple-Picking", read by Robert Frost himself, on the way home.
Oscar and John love messing with the neighborhood cat Sneakers, who just happens to look just like Maurice. Here they are teasing him with old allium inflorescences, aka magic wands.
Oscar was very strong to carry the bag all by himself!
We analyzed all the apples: counting them...
making a red-green rainbow...
separating the red from the green...
(hair-braiding interlude; this was very boring for me and Edie)
sorting by size and then actually weighing them on the kitchen scale, and making some spreadsheets! Green apples were heavier on average than red apples.
We've made one batch of applesauce, and the second apple crisp just finished baking. Yum yum yum in my tummy tum tum, as Edie likes to say.
Then we went on a new trail at the State Park.
Bug interlude.
A beautiful orb-weaver has been hanging out in front of the bay window. I got to watch her wrap up and consume many insects while nursing Ben. Then she made what looked like an egg sac! But now she's vanished, probably Charlotte-style.
A genuine monarch, spotted in the neighborhood!
Ben's really waking up! He'll look around for minutes at a stretch but since he isn't smiling yet he seems unimpressed by this existence.
I finished making a set of baby blankets - one for him and one for his cousin Sam - and Ben likes his alright! I like it too!
Another rare instance of cooperative children! Cooperating in getting filthy, of course.
Get! Me! Outtahere!
What? Oh, no, you must be thinking of someone else. I'm quite comfortable, thank you.
