We made our second annual fall trek to Northern Idaho to visit Darci, Dan, Alma, and Hadrian. It was a three-fold trip...hang out, build a wall for Hadrian's new room, and pick/process apples. Dan's homemade cider press gets the job done when it comes to apple cider. We came home with a load of apple juice. Rusty and Dan tore down part of a wall and put up a new one to create a room for Hadrian. That took a good part of one day, but they got it done. Darci arranged with some of Dan's family to take the girls on a horseback ride and she also took them to Claires for part of an afternoon. Needless to say they loved that. Dan pulled out one of the fancy trains and set it up in the living room one night. Every single kid was so excited about that train. Alma was scooting across the track just in time not to get hit by the train. She thought that was so fun. We ate a whole bunch of delicious food, including lasagna with homemade noodles (GO DAN!). We played ticket to ride after the kids went to bed. That is a new favorite. We are already looking forward to the third annual trip. The apples season is a pretty convenient time to go, but boating season may draw us away from apple season. We shall see.
When we got home we splurged and bought a commercial food dehydrator to dry our apples. My old snackmaster junior circular dehydrator had about 6 square feet of drying space. The new one has 52 square feet of drying space. Some day we hope to be drying all kinds of fruit from the 8 fruit trees we have planted in our backyard. With the new dehydrator, we cranked out the dehydrated apples. We didn't make any applesauce this year as we still have plenty from last year. We did make apple pie filling, much to Rusty's delight. I love apple season!
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