Second Annual Apple Month

This year's Hinesley Apple Month was great!  We made apple butter, apple crisp, apple scones (courtesy of Chris!), and apple cinnamon pancakes.  Yummo.  Jensen and I also studied the life cycle of apple trees and watched a movie on apple farming during school time.  This year's trip to the apple orchard was much more successful than last year's trip.  Only one orchard.  No tears.  And we got apples!  We took Aunt Susie with us this year which was fun.  Because of the hot weather and drought in Indiana the apple crop wasn't as good this year, but there was still plenty of golden delicious apples to choose from.  Hayden had a great time running around the lines of trees and fell all over the place despite the fact that he was getting over having Hand, Foot and Mouth.  Jensen was mortified last year when we read a book about going to the orchard where the author wrote that the correct way to pick an apple is to turn the eye upward so it doesn't damage the tree.  We hadn't picked them the right way last year!  She made sure to turn them correctly this year and instructed the rest of us to do the same.