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Pre-picked Certified Organic Apple Price List:
Class 1- $2.00/lb $1.75/lb for 25 lb or more
Class 2-slight blemish- $1.25/lb $1.00/lb for 25 lb or more
Class 3-larger blemishes-processing $.75/lb
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We finished planting our garden on Wednesday. Here are some pictures.
We raced to see who could get the most rows of potatoes planted!
Some transplanted tomatoes.
Micah with the Earthway seeder, a handy gadget which digs your row to the depth you set it, plants the seed, covers it and marks the specified distance to your next row! The only down side is that you can’t soak your seeds or water your rows before you plant so hopefully the seeds do well as we have not had much rain yet!
This year the older boys rented 2 acres of land from a nearby farmer because they wanted to plant some of their carrot crop in sandy soil. They also set things up so they can have three sprinklers going at once using water from the nearby slough. If you enlarge this picture, you can see 2 of the sprinklers running.
The pump running the three sprinklers.
Genesis 2:15 – And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
Here are some of the things we have been doing this spring.
Cultivating one of the carrot patches.
We pruned 18 of the 34 cherry tree rows and all 20 rows of apples recently.
Chipper shredding the branches.
Micah mowing the orchard.
Taking down the rink boards so we could plant the garden.
More pictures to come!!
This post will cover a few more things that we did on our trip but don’t have many pictures from, for example, the main reason we went on this trip in the first place was to sing at a few places!
Hoover Dam and the bridge over it are quite a phenomenal site to see. Just to give you an idea of the size of the bridge (see below), the little dots you see along the upper edge are people!
The Ethel M Chocolate Factory was somewhat interesting but by the time we got there it was mostly clean up that we could watch…the taste tests were great though!
Joshua by the Joshua tree outside the chocolate factory.
We made a brief stop at San Clemente Beach on our way down the coast between L. A. and San Diego. The flowers are blooming, the palm trees are swaying in the wind and it is beach weather in February!! (At least to people that come from SK.)
It was a priviledge to sing at the Creation Museum on the outskirts of San Diego. This is where the creation movement to respond to the false view of evolution began in North America. As you can see from the posters below, they are still going strong and have many activities happening. Unfortunately, we have no other pictures from there but if you visit their website creationsd.sd.org you will find lots of pictures and information about a great place to visit to give you proof for the truth of what God said in the first part of Exodus 20:11, “For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is.”
On the way to Yuma, we did a tour of a carrot farm that was being harvested in the desert.
There are many RV resorts in Yuma! (and many Canadian snowbirds!!) This one that we sang at has a well attended morning service every Sunday in the winter months.
This may not be a very clear picture but this is the best we have from Organ Stop Pizza in Mesa, AZ. The big Wurlitzer Pipe Organ is connected to all sorts of instruments all around the walls above. The organist plays about 40 minutes of every hour the restaurant is open and then his organ dissappears, circling down into the floor during his breaks. You can make special requests and he played both of ours, “Amazing Grace” and “How Great Thou Art”. In “Amazing Grace”, he was able to imitate the sound of bagpipes perfectly even though that is one instrument he does not have up on the walls connected into the organ.
We have so many interesting memories from this trip and are thankful to God for the opportunities and the safety He provided.
