A Very Busy Thanksgiving Day!

We were invited to a delicious Family Thanksgiving Dinner in the Valley yesterday.  It was a beautiful 2 hour drive, the colours of the leaves were amazing.  Food for the eyes that's for sure.  The temperature was nice as well, perfect for what we had planned.  Across from where our Family Thanksgiving Dinner was being hosted stands an abandoned Apple Orchard.  The apples are no longer sprayed, the trees are no longer pruned and have grown up with rose bushes and other sharp needled shrubs and rip the skin on your hands when your trying to reach through them.  My hands look like I got in a fight with a wild cat.

You can see the small rose berries amongst the apples in this photo.....

You probably wouldn't see a birds nest in a tree of a sprayed orchard......

The Pears will certainly be a special treat for the pigs, something they have not eaten a lot of that's for sure!.......

Ready to head home with our bounty of produce for our animals......

After a lot of scrounging and lugging we came home with 9 bags of apples and pears.  As well as a bag of over grown beets and two bags of swiss chard for the meat chickens.  It was a day of feasting and also a productive day of scrounging produce to feed our farm animals.

I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving doing your favourite things and being with those you hold dear.

'til next time!