Okay I love fall, but I felt like a total wimp this weekend! October has been unseasonably warm until this weekend (Last week it was in the 80s!). It was in the mid-50s today and windy. That didn't stop us from going to the pumpkin patch at our local Heyser Farms. They also have an apple orchard there.
It definitely wasn't the apple picking experience we had when we lived in Central New York. No hayride out to the orchard, filled with 10+ varieties of apples. Nope these were all picked for you. A nice guy there let me taste their patent variety of apples, the Spencerville apple. It was crisp, and slightly tart. I bought a peck. I have no idea what a peck is exactly, but now we have a lot of apples. The apple crisp has already been half eaten as I write this. Next on my list are caramel apples or apple dumplings.
While I made dinner and the apple crisp, Sophia and Larry carved her first pumpkin. She picked out this cute little pumpkin. Hubby of course picked out a large pumpkin that ended up costing 2x as much as the local grocery store. It's one heavy pumpkin!
Being at the apple orchard, we had to buy some fresh apple cider. It tastes like you're drinking a fresh apple! If you live in Silver Spring, you have to go right away and pick up some. This cider would taste great mulled.
What are you doing to usher in fall?
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