Fall is.......SOON COMING!!!!!!!!!

Just soooo everyone knows...I thought I would tell you that fall is right around the corner!!! ;) JOY!!! I have been busy with doing landscaping projects and other odd jobs so that is pretty normal for me, that is kind of why I have not posted anything to recently. But for a new twist on things for once, I did something that I had never done before and I was reminded that fall was just right around the corner! Last week, I had the opportunity to help pick apples in someones orchard. It was 2 of my friends and I who were doing the picking and we were able to pick about 10-11 bushels of apples in approximately 1 hour!!! I enjoyed the picking process because it gave for an amazing time to talk and "taste test" from the different apple trees we picked from. These apple trees were well established and well taken care of. Plus, on top of that they were organic trees!!! :D
After finishing a hour of picking, we quickly headed off to do something with the apples that I had never seen done and that only brought the true fall spirit into reality.....we were off to a press to make....ORGANIC APPLE CIDER....JOY!!! :D This press is actually a family run business and it was really neat to see them work together to make cider out the apples we had picked. At first, we were not sure how many gallons of cider we would get from the apples since there can be different reasons for getting more juice....so we waited and watched with anticipation.
Well, just so you know we ALL were totally BLOWN out of the water by how much apple cider came from the apples....do you want to give a guess......................................................................................??????????????? Ok, I will tell you, it was about 30 gallons!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh my, I think that is enough for a whole army! We took it all back with us and my family was able to take some of if it and the rest went to be distributed to others. One of the nice things about apple cider is that you can freeze it, so that is the case with our family.
So, in short we had an amazing time and I learned alot! Just with thinking back on this, there is a very applicable passage of scripture that might go right along with this post, and that is Matthew 9:35-38 speaking of the harvest. "And Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people. But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them, because they fainted, and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd. Then saith he unto his disciples, The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few; Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest." May the Lord bless you all with a burden for the lost and a heart to truly reach out sacrificially in bringing in the harvest!
(Ps. Here are some pictures, please forgive me if they are blurry because I took them on my cell phone... :( )