Apple Fest
Oct. 12th, 2008 08:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jayfurrCarole and I spent two hours yesterday afternoon right after lunch re-staining our deck with weathersealing stain. I'd made it a much more complicated job last year by using a power sprayer whose reservoir required messy refilling every ten minutes, but this year it went much more quickly when we just used brushes. We may want to put more on today if some spots look a bit thin but we're not trying for a House Beautiful award; we just want the deck to last.
Since it was such a sunny, beautiful day we rewarded ourselves by driving up to South Hero, Vermont, out in the Champlain Islands, to visit the annual Apple Fest. It's modest by comparison with the legendary Vermont Maple Festival but that didn't matter -- there were lots of nice dogs to say hello to and the fall foliage was still resplendent.
We had apple pie with ice cream and then strolled around looking at things. In the end, we wound up buying some pineapple tomatillos at a farmer's stand and a gallon of cider and a peck of McIntosh apples from the local apple barons, Allenholm Farm.
And then we came home and I made a small batch of baked cider doughnuts. Yes, some of them look like particularly disturbing deep-sea echninoderms, but I didn't have two doughnut pans and wound up using a star muffin pan for the remaining batter. They tasted fine anyway.
Since it was such a sunny, beautiful day we rewarded ourselves by driving up to South Hero, Vermont, out in the Champlain Islands, to visit the annual Apple Fest. It's modest by comparison with the legendary Vermont Maple Festival but that didn't matter -- there were lots of nice dogs to say hello to and the fall foliage was still resplendent.
We had apple pie with ice cream and then strolled around looking at things. In the end, we wound up buying some pineapple tomatillos at a farmer's stand and a gallon of cider and a peck of McIntosh apples from the local apple barons, Allenholm Farm.
And then we came home and I made a small batch of baked cider doughnuts. Yes, some of them look like particularly disturbing deep-sea echninoderms, but I didn't have two doughnut pans and wound up using a star muffin pan for the remaining batter. They tasted fine anyway.
