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Flower today. Been very busy, no time for a blog post.
Update: This is for Andy. Sorry I was so beat yesterday. I patched holes and cracks in the walls in Tara’s (soon to be our) room. I ripped up a carpet and cut it into smaller pieces in the soon to be new office/craft/and way in the future nursey room. I really tired myself out while doing that activity. Then I hauled all the cut up pieces of carpet outside. There was alot of running up and down the stairs yesterday. I took 3 showers because I kept getting myself soaked with sweat while working in the rooms. So I was too tired to convey that on the blog last night. All I wanted to do was watch some TV and relax. How I Met Your Mother was good but I’ve totally forgotten what it was about, The Class was okay and I’ve also forgotten the major parts of that show. I spent some time while watching TV making labels for manilla folders with my new Dyamo Label Maker, not an old punch one with the plastic tape. My Dyamo Label maker is all electronic with a handy cutter. The cutter was a nice touch and I was glad to have it because my hands were blistered from cutting the carpet. Heroes was a good one and CSI Miami was so, so. Then I slept really well.
Today Allison and I made a road trip up to Stow, MA to Shelburne Farm to go for an impromptu apple picking adventure. The day was absolutely beautiful. We got to the farm and saw that they had apple picking, pumpkin picking, a little store and some beautiful scenery. We went to the store first and picked up a mix for Apple Crisp. Then we realized that we didn’t have quite enough apples at home. We had picked up some Cortlands at The Big Apple in Wrentham, MA last weekend. So we decided to go out to do some apple picking. We brought our cameras and had intended to just go on a photo safari day. Today was a day about saving some money and spending some good time together. It was a great day.
We headed out to the orchard and started by picking a few Macouns and then some McIntoshes and then a couple of Cortlands. We only picked a peck and Allison loaded it up with as much (and more) as could fit in the bag. We got our money’s worth from the day. Here are a few pictures from Shelburne Farm.
After the farm we went over to the Nashoba Valley Winery. If you get a chance to go there some weekend I recommend that you do. Take the tour, it is only $3.00 a person and you get a souvenir wine glass and get to taste 5 or so wines. The wine is reasonably priced. We picked up a bottle of their Dry Pear wine. We also took a few pictures there as well. Inspired by our friend Amy’s fantastic pictures of wine country in California, I set up a few shots with the bottle and the glass. Today’s photo is one of the set up shots and some photoshop work to make it look more stylized.
