Christmas Wreaths Available this Weekend

Greetings!

Last week I was so excited to finally have high speed internet and not dial up...this week I'm back to dial up. How very sad. The power went out multiple times today and seems to have killed my high speed. So after thirty minutes of waiting for my e-mail program to load I am just beginning to type this letter!

Oh well. Hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving! We ate lots of food like everyone else which meant no cooking today! (That's the best part!) Now we move on to getting ready for Christmas. Starting this weekend we will have freshly cut Christmas wreaths. I'm excited to pull out the decorations and hang the wreaths on our doors!

We have decided to try being open in January. We will close the stand at noon on Christmas Eve Day and will remain closed until January 7th. We will open again on Friday, January 8th and then be open every Friday and Saturday from 9 to 5 in January. We will be closed Sunday through Thursday in January. Because it is so much work to set up all of the apple baskets each week we will be selling all of the apples out of bins. They will be what we call "tree run." This means that they are not sorted apples; they are a mix of firsts and seconds. You will be able to bag up your apples and we will be selling all of them for the "seconds" price. This is the first time we've ever been open in January so this will be an experiment. We'll have cider donuts on those January days, so stop by and get them on your way to Roundtop if you're a skier!

Unfortunately I didn't get a new recipe posted before losing my high speed so I am going to wait until next week to add a new recipe. Sorry!

Celebrate with us! It's our anniversary!

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The questions continue...If you missed last week's newsletter that's O.K., you just missed my announcement of our anniversary. Ten years ago, Dan and I bought the orchard. To celebrate we're going to post two questions each week over five weeks that only my e-mail newsletter subscribers will receive. Each question represents one year of farming!

Last week I gave the first two questions.

1. Who did Dan work for before buying the orchard?

Answer: Perdue Farms, Inc. (He worked for Frank Perdue as a sales representative for central and eastern PA.)

2. What are Karen's favorite apples?

Answer: Gala, Jonagold, and Fuji (Although I need to add honeycrisp to that list!)

Here are this week's questions:

3. Who gave us the WONDERFUL recipe for Fresh Apple Cake?

4. What months do we offer Birthday Parties?