Apple orchard

After early morning tennis at Wooddale, where the two sets went to 7-6, 5-7, it occurred to me that the weather was just too nice to spend much time inside. The princess was here and she was agreeable to a trip to an apple orchard and a chance to buy some local produce. The afternoon was sunny and warm - 67 degrees on my auto's thermometer - and the sky was October blue. We drove to Aamodt's Apple Farm just north of highway 36 on the way to Stillwater. Unfortunately for us, but fortunately for the Aamodts, we weren't the only people with the same idea today.

We had a stroll among the apple trees. It is amazing how many apples end up on the ground and apparently wasted. This tree had more apples on the ground than I could down in a month. I don't know the economics of the business, but it seems like a lot of profit was left on the ground.

I guess they make up for the waste by keeping their prices high enough. We bought some honey crisp apples, some apple butter and some honey. I felt good about contributing to the local economy and I have fresh apples for a week or so.

And the Halloween season is clearly on its way. There are a lot of attractively decorated homes in the area, and there are still two weeks until the holiday. Even in bad economic times people like to scare the kiddies on Halloween.