Apple Day

We had the great honor of being invited back to the Applegate House for Apple Day, this is a great fall event celebrating - you got it - the apple.

People turned out in record numbers this year to tour the house, hear great music, buy apple pie, candied apples and fry bread.

The girls with the hats are Susan and Shannon Applegate, cousins and 5th generation Applegates! When they give tours of the house, they dress up and pretend to be their great aunts who lived in the house.

The best part for me was that William had designed and built an apple press this spring. We brought it and pressed apples all day.

It was such a simple process to put the apples through the grinder and they fell into the bucket, we moved the bucket down to under the press and spun away, we got about a gallon of cider per bucket. People were fascinated and stood around and watched us work all day! Applegate House is a non profit organization and they sold glasses and jugs of cider as a fundraiser.

http://www.applegatehouse.com/index.htm

It was the perfect fall day, sunny with high clouds, warm and dry, just right for memories.

Hope you are enjoying the season too.