This year, we went to Boston Hill Farm in North Andover. It's a small family owned farm relatively close to us. (It's closer than gymnastics anyways!)
Our drive over to the farm was a bit of an adventure as power was still out to much of Andover and North Andover meaning the street lights were OUT. Not even flashing. OUT. As a public service announcement before I even go any further -- dude, people, we need to talk. When you are in a car and approach a light that has no power what's the proper way to proceed? Treat the bloody intersection like a 4 way stop! Do not blow through the intersection thinking woo hoo -- no light for me! Because let me just tell you that some other idiot going the other direction is thinking the same ***** thing and while I'm a firm believer in the Darwin theory, there's no need for me to witness a massive traffic accident when I'm on my way to the farm!
Backtracking a bit... WHY was there no power you ask? Well, there was a bit of a commotion on last Thursday afternoon. Columbia Gas starting experiencing explosions all over Andover, North Andover and Lawrence. It was chaos. It's still chaos. 70+ explosions all over town. And no one knew what was causing them or how to stop them. We were fine at our house - we have our own propane tanks, so we're not on the city's gas line. There's now a lawsuit and so many people still don't have the gas fixed at their house. The neighbors are all jumpy every time they think their house is going to explode!
So - in an effort to return to normalcy and still spend money at small local businesses, we decided to go ahead and meet friends at the orchard.
We now are the proud owners of a half a bushel of Courtland and MacIntosh apples. That's a LOT of apples folks.
We got really lucky with the weather and while it was warm - it was overcast and we didn't melt! Yay.
It was a great morning and lunch and I hope we're able to make it a tradition with our local friends!
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