November rains came in this week and it is very close to the end of harvest season.
Dale and Jan invited us over to make cider - so we gathered the "fam" and went out to their farm. We had some great sunshine so it was nice to be outdoors
Dale And Jan have a secret formula - the secret is the type of apple trees they have, although they planted them 50 years ago - they lost track of the type of apples they are...except for the delicious ones - which are obvious by their appearance....so they do not really know the apple type - just the formula by buckets of apples from each tree.
The we rode the gater with the apples back to the garage,
These Gaters can be dangerous - so Judah thought it best if he took the wheel
(note the warning behind him...these things are deadly)
Then it is important to sort the apples - getting rid of spiders and snakes that may have snuck into the buckets or the apple trees!
Dale has a homemade grinder to get the apples to the pulp stage.
The Pulp fills the bucket
Then it goes into the press
And Out comes the cider!
You can even stick your finger in it.
The we strain it into the jugs!
Don't you wish you had apples like this!
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