Today was the last day that I will have both kids home together before one or the other or both are in school daily. So I planned to take them to an apple orchard and pick apples. What fun right? Well there was an article in the paper Sunday about a great place called Red Chief Orchard in Castalian Springs which is past Gallatin. Well the paper said:
1. You can buy apples or pick them yourself
2. There are 8 different varieties of apples
3. Peaches, yellow and white corn and tomatoes are available
Sounds great but
1. When we asked to pick apples, she said no that she does not let little kids pick apples because there are "bees" out there and she is afraid they will get stung and they are allergic???
2. I think I saw 4 varieties and there were not many to choose from. They had a few boxes of peaches and apples and we asked if we could fill a bag up. They said no. That the man would put them in the bag or the barrel and that we should not touch them.
3. They did have peaches which we purchased and looked good and I saw about "3" pretty big tomatoes. But no corn which we had on our list to purchase.
The kids enjoyed looking at the fruit and were excited about our purchases but I would not recommend driving over to their old "barn" just to purchase some apples. The customer service was not very friendly and the selection was not anywhere what the article had stated. Oh well.
On the way we passed Bledsoe State Park and I thought perfect, we can hope over there and eat our lunch and let the kids run. Nope. State Park is CLOSED due to construction. Another bummer.
Sooo, I opened up the VZ navigator and typed in park. One popped up that sounded good about 4 miles away. It ended up being a sports complex but it had a great clean picnic area and lots of room to run. It had a nice playground but the kids didn't even play on it.
Kids found a pile of wood and continued to add to it for at least 30 minutes to create their "fire".
Piling things up.
Found this huge tree stump that they beat on for awhile.
Here they are slowing chasing a butterfly!
Lunch time.
So that ended up being nice and there was no one there so it was quiet and that was even nicer!
Then tonight, mostly Chris, but I helped make a apple pie from our apples.
It was delicious! A little side of ice cream and yum! Everything but the apples were staples in the house so I spent about $2.oo on the whole pie. Excellent deal!
Here Jessica is practicing her reading while we are waiting for the pie to come out of the oven. she is doing great and picking up her reading speed a lot.
Ok, I tried a new grocery store today. On the way home, we stopped by Publix. I was very impressed. Everyone was super kind, very attentive and very helpful. Now I went in because they had some very specific deals that I wanted. I walked out feeling that the deals were very good but that some things that were regular price were more expensive than the things are at regualar price at Kroger.
Hamburger Helper 1.59, sale for .99, coupon for .75 of of 3 - got three boxes for $.74 each.
Yogurt .60, sale for .50, 2 coupons for .40 cents off then doubled. = $.37 each
Hot Pockets 2.09, sale for $1.59, 2 coupons, 1 for $1 off 1 and 1 .75 off = $1.15 each
Muffin Mix 2.69, sale B1G1, coupon for $1 off 2 = $.85 each
Barilla Pasta 2.76, sale B1G1, only bought one and they charged me $1.38.
Now, they do not accept the coupons that you can load on to your Kroger card. So in that case, if Hamburger helper was $1 at Kroger then add my coupon and then add the one on my card, I could have gotten a better deal. Overall a good experience but I still think that by sticking with Kroger and watching the deals at that one store each week I can get the same if not better deals.
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