Apple Picking At Riley's Farm 10/11/2007
It was 74 miles from our home to Riley's front door. A pleasant drive since we left mid-morning and avoided the
normal traffic.
It's a dirt driveway getting to the shed. We have been on this path in snow and rain lad we had a truck. Today
was dry and dusty.
It is a working farm and they are planting new areas of the farm all the time. We saw new trees against the mountain
behind the shed and a lot of other work going on.
The shed is used for get together including dinners and dancing. We join them once in a while for big band dancing
in the shed.
Yes, that is an apple bucket on my head. Great way to avoid the sun and also get the basket from the shed to the
picking area.
It don't get no fresher than this! From three to home in one day!
Cider is squeezed apples ands that is all! Not additives.
Apple cider is the name used especially in the United States and parts of Canada for a non-alcoholic
beverage produced from apples by a process of pressing. It is more sour and cloudy than conventional apple juice, retaining
the tart flavor of the apple pulp which is lost in conventional fruit juice production.
Cider is mostly thought to be best[citation needed] in late autumn, corresponding with the harvest season, and is a popular
traditional beverage on Halloween and Thanksgiving, heated if the weather is especially cold.
The Original Log Cabin From Pennsylvania
Did You Know? A log cabin is a small house built from logs. It is a fairly simple type of log house; they were built both in rural areas and in cities in timber-rich regions, around the world, but particularly in the northern hemisphere.
Log structures in the US were first constructed by Swedes in what is now south-east Pennsylvania, c. 1638,and as such were not used by the first English settlers in the United States.
There are few log cabins that date from the 18th century still standing in the US; most were not intended as permanent dwellings and as time passed they were often converted into out buildings for coops, animal shelter or other utilitarian uses
This is an old log cabin from Pennsylvania.
The cabin was real, actually used by folks for years!
The shed and a view of the educational area where school kids come to get an eyeful of what it is like to live and work
on a farm.
Let's Look Around Oak Glen
Oak Glen is a favorite destination so we woke up one morning and said, "let's go". We had a great day!
Time to eat after 52 tourists finally leave the resturant!
Nice local farms. The owners live just off the main public buildings and operate their businesses within walking distance.
Pumpkins all over the place! A pumpkin is a squash fruit that grows as a gourd from a trailing vine of certain species in the genus Cucurbita. Although native to the Western hemisphere, pumpkins are cultivated in North America, continental Europe, Australia, New Zealand, India and some other countries.
One-room schools were commonplace throughout rural portions of various countries including the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom and Ireland in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
In most rural (country) and small town schools, all of the students met in a single room.
A typical school day was 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., with a morning and an afternoon recess of 15 minutes each and an hour period for lunch. "The older students were given the responsibility of bringing in water, carrying in coal or wood for the stove.
The younger students would be given responsibilities according to their size and gender such as cleaning the black board (chalkboard), taking the erasers outside for dusting plus other duties that they were capable of doing.
There, a single teacher taught academic basics to five to eight grade levels of elementary-age boys and girls. This one was in operation through 1967 in Oak Glen.
Maybe this is why they learned!
