HODGE PODGE

We picked grapes Tuesday and Wednesday

Tuesday evening we were pooped

Wednesday evening we were a little better

The 'man' in charge had us put our snippers down

at 11:45 a.m. on Wednesday

That was music to our ears

Ha-Ha

Saturday is our next picking day

The lake was beautiful with its mirror image

Nice sunny day on Tuesday for  picking

Wednesday was cold and windy

Jackets and toques soon came off as the sun warmed the air

The bins were filling up

with pinot gris

These girls were like the energized bunny

They could pick circles around us

Check out this sign and bus!

Wednesday afternoon we went to Ruby Blues

to check out the Merlot that we had picked that morning

The shop is such an unique place

they are even selling red shoes besides Red Stiletto wine

Stephanie's friend Lisa would love these shoes

We can pick a pair up for you Lisa

What's your shoe size?????

There's the Merlot

The tank is being filled

We had a taste of the juice

Sweet

Great view from inside

Last night the Haloween box came out

Everyone was rummaging around

picking out things they would like to wear Haloween night

Even Rosco got in on the act

Batman became Spiderman

One costume over the other

He wanted to wear his costume to bed!

Love the cigar

Too much laughing going on here!!!!!!!

This morning Gwendolyn had a shower

She was going to Ethan's school for

Show and Tell

Interesting things going on this morning across the road at the apple orchard

Bins of apples were brought down to a juicer trailer

The apples were dropped into a hopper

which fed them into a conveyer

The apple press is in the background

Here is a better view of it

Apple pulp

YUCK

The juice has been pasturized

Juice now has been boxed

The gentleman who owns the 'juicer' told me he was at an orchard in Kelowna last weekend where they had 400 boxes of juice

150 boxes were sold right then and there

The 'juicer' was at the orchard all day

You can check this out

Joe and I had a little taste of the apple juice

  IT WAS DELICIOUS