Picking in the Rain
Last Friday night, T and I decided we’d take the kids apple picking Saturday morning rain or shine. We’ve been wanting to go for weeks, but the weekends have been busy, or the weather hasn’t been great. As it turned out, the weather wasn’t all that great on Saturday either, but we had no other plans, and the kids were super excited to go, so we threw on our raincoats and rain boots and headed up to the orchard.
Due to the soggy weather, there were no hayrides out to the fields this time. Fortunately, the walk was a short one. After picking the very first apples they could get their tiny, little hands on, Tiny and Buba began chomping away at their sweet, juicy, fresh picked apples.
They soon discovered that eating and picking at the same time was not as easy as it looked. T and I tried to encourage them to do their best to do both, but what they really wanted to to was eat their apples.
So they ate, and T and I picked. We had a 20 pound bag to fill, and I was sure Buba and Tiny would finish their apples before we filled the bag. But by the time they both got down to the core and seeds, it was pouring (prior to that it had just been a light drizzle). I headed back to the farm stand area with the kids, while T finished filling our apple bag.
This wasn’t quite what I’d had in mind when I said I was looking forward to apple picking this year, but in spite of the weather, we all still had a really good time. And now comes the best part- where we get to feast for weeks on the delicious apples that we picked ourselves!
I am glad you decided to go even though it was raining because these pictures are the BEST!! I love that the kids ate the apples while mommy and daddy did all the work!! This makes me think of how my miss Priss gets out of working…she says her back hurts! Yes, my 3 year old knows how to play us like a fiddle! 
hope all is well you way!! Talk to you soon!
Love Andrea’s comment!
I also love how they got you two to do the work Clever kids and beautiful pics, R!
yay! love the expressions on their faces.
Glad you had a good time, despite the weather…AND you got The Best Pictures, too! I absolutely love those first two, each of their eyes alight with joy. So precious.
I’m hoping to head back to the orchard tomorrow to do some pictures among the pumpkins. We’ll get some more apples, too. We made great use of the last 1/2 peck we got…this was the first time (with lots of help from the girls) that we ate all our apples fresh. I didn’t even bake any! I’m hoping for at least enough for an apple pie this go-round!