Schoonover Farm Blog

Today we pressed apples except it was sunny and warm.  Usually when we press apples it is cold and stormy.  I typically am drenched  in rain, have numb hands from the cold and/or am waiting for a tree to fall on me in the wind.  This year all I had to worry about was getting sweaty and sunburnt.  This is because our apples are early this year thanks to our warm summer.

I am not complaining.  Below is a shot of mother and daughter from this morning.  Can you tell they are related?

We did not see the aurora borealis last night, but we did see a pretty moon.

It feels so good to have the barn cleaned out.  It took many days of effort on our part, but now there is a feeling of accomplishment and preparedness.

I know if does not look like much to some folks, but to us it is gorgeous!

In unrelated and unexpected news, my cat opened the spigot on my primary fermentation vat for my red plum wine and released 1/2 gallon of the fermenting wine on the dining room floor.  Thankfully she did this while I was making my lunch so it was only 1/2 gallon rather than 4 gallons, and it did not have much time to sink into our wood floor and rug.  But still, lunch was postponed and a major clean up effort ensued.  I now have the spigot well taped shut.  You never know what is going to happen when you live with other species of animals.