Apple Overload!

So yesterday we spent an awesome day at the Apple Orchard while my loveling was studying. I came home with most of a bushel of apples (20 lbs!). It was a fabulous fun time and now I'm looking forward to making applesauce, apple butter, and apple pie!! It's going to be fabulous. I also managed to obtain cider, fudge, miniature animal crackers, a fabulous dip mix, and (shhhh don't tell the boy) garlic summer sausage! ahhh loot.

If you've never been to a pick your own orchard, I highly recommend going. They're always a ton of fun and you won't believe how much better the apples taste. Especially if you're lucky enough to have an organic orchard on hand. Plus it just makes it seem more like delicious fall.

On other notes, I finally got my hands on Sense and Sensability and Sea Monsters. I love this series. Adore it. Worship it. I have rarely read anything more entertaining - except for Terry Prachett. I highly recommend both this one and the first one, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.

On the knitting front, I'm a good quarter of the way through the halloween birthday socks. The Outside in pattern is way easier than expected and I love the Stroll Tiger yarn from knitpicks. I am still warily avoiding casting on for the Mystic Embers Shawl. Since I've never done a provisional cast on over a spare cable, I want to make sure I have a big block of time to myself so I can screw it up a few times. I learned my lesson with Mystic Star. But I did do the swatch and I adore the yarn. Yarntopia's colorway came out fabulously. I hope to have pics here soon.

That's all that's interesting right now. Off to see Whip It!