On Sundays I usually post only photographs. This month, however, I am participating in the Slice of Life Story Challenge through the Two Writing Teachers blog. It is a blog writing challenge. It is debatable, even in my own mind, as to whether just photos would be acceptable in a writing challenge. Last week, I…
Today we pruned the trees in our home fruit orchard. Thirty trees altogether, there are apple, cherry, plum, and pear. Most of the trees are apple of which we have several varieties. These include cortland, honey gold, haralson, honey crisp, and macintosh. We had some other varieties – supposedly hardy to our area, such as…
My husband and I been watching past episodes of The Great British Baking Show through our WiFi enabled Roku unit and a PBS Passport account. Last night we watched an episode on bread making from season two. While it was on, I penned a quick poem on the subject of the episode: English Muffins! English…
What’s kaffeeklatsch? It’s the German word that gave rise to our phrase, coffee klatch. It usually refers to a group of friends getting together at someone’s house to share coffee and gossip or kaffe and klatsch in German. The kaffeeklatsch became popular in the 1950’s here in the U.S. as a way for stay at…
Grand Canyon of the Pacific I’ve been dreaming a lot of pleasure travel lately. My husband and I, both recently retired, had several trips planned for 2020. We were able to get one in during early February before the shut down in mid-March of last year. This was a trip to Santa Fe, New Mexico…
I feel stuck about what to write about today. It’s not really a writer’s block, but more of indecision. I skipped my Silent Sunday post this week to write a post filled with text. Now, I’m wondering if that was such a good idea. One of our fellow slicers, Lainie Levin, encouraged me to post…
After our youngest son moved out at the end of January, my husband and I decided to get rid of our bundled cable, phone, and internet package. The house phone, which rarely rang anymore with the exception of robo-calls and solicitations, was hardly used. The cable T.V. was not used well enough to justify the…
Today, is my one thousandth, three hundredth, and twentieth blog post! That’s right I’ve made 1,320 posts to The Apples In My Orchard! It all started just before the Slice of Life Story Challenge in 2017. I opened my blog during the last week in February to test the waters and be ready to write…
All of the photographs featured in my Silent Sunday posts are taken by me, Carol Labuzzetta, author of The Apples in My Orchard blog. There is no permission to reproduce the photos in any form, digital or otherwise, whether watermarked or not. They are purely for your online visual enjoyment, once a week. Thank you!
For the last few days, I’ve been in a slump. It’s really the first slump I can recall during the pandemic. Mostly, my “slumpiness” revolved around feelings about my own self worth and feeling undervalued. But, today, several things have happened to restore my sense of being valued by others. I realized that I do…