Apple Picking

 Ryker and Anna came into town to be with us for the weekend because it was their fall break. I planned our Peterson Halloween Party for this weekend mostly because I knew they would be in town and I thought it would be fun for Ryker to see his family and be at the Halloween party for the first time in quite a while. They arrived on Thursday and on Friday we went apple picking. Rylee came home for lunch and she has a free period right after lunch so she went with us to pick apples. We went to an orchard in Emmett and we picked enough to fill two 5 gallon buckets. I wanted to dehydrate the apples and this seemed like a massive amount of apples which actually did not take long at all to pick. We spent maybe 10 minutes picking apples, it was very quick.

When we got back I started cutting and placing the apples in the dehydrator I have and after doing one batch I realized I was going to need more dehydrators to get through all of the apples we picked. I was able to get one from Arin Lamb and Kim Hansen, Whitney and Alison brought theirs over the next day for me to use which was also very helpful. With the added fleet of dehydrators I was able to get through all of the apples that weekend. Once dehydrated and packed in bags I realized I should have bought more apples. The apples shrink, obviously, in the dehydrator, I know better for next year and will make sure to get lots more apples.