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Winter Arrives At Hercules Flat!
Winter has arrived!
This morning we awoke to find the ground blanketed in snow!!
Once it was light enough Mum, Ruby and I ventured outside and to take some photos.
We tried to convince camera-shy Aunty Belle to come out as well but she (wisely) declined due to the fact the temperature was still sitting at freezing point!
Here’s some of the photos I took this morning.
You can find more of them on my Flickr page.
Moorpark Apricot Trees with a blanket of snow.
Nectarine trees in the snow.
Me and Mum out in the snow.
Mum and Ruby out in the snow.
Hobbs Orchard Nostalgic Photos: No. 5
Time for another nostalgic moment.
Here’s a photo from around 1992 that Mum took of Dad spraying a copper spray on the Apricot trees.
Sam and Ruby’s Mother’s Day Blog
Some words to describe our Mother are as follows:
Witty
Kind
Faithful
Strong
Caring
Rational
Thoughtful
Honest
A year and a half ago, our world turned upside-down when Dad died totally unexpectedly on Xmas Eve, at the very beginning of the 2011/2012 Fruit Season.
Fruit needed to be picked, packed and sold, so life had to go on.
Mum’s strength of character shined through as usual as she reassured us we would make it through this terrible grief. We can’t describe the pain we felt as we knew our world had changed forever.
Our mother had to deal with the fact that not only had she lost her husband of twenty years; our father; but she had lost her business partner as well.
Mum and Dad were a team.
They were a ‘we’ and now she was an ‘I’.
Her first thoughts after Dad died were not of herself but of us.
She sat us down and said that the only way to survive this ordeal was to talk and cry our way through the rawness of it. And she was there to listen any time of the day or night. And talk and cry is what we did.
Knowing that Dad wasn’t going to walk through the door ever again was overwhelming at times. There were many “crash and burn” moments.
But throughout the months of horrendous grief and times of uncertainty, Mum was our rock.
Thank you Mum for being such a wonderful Mother.
We love you dearly.
Love from your family.
Sam, Ruby & Aunty Belle
Hobbs Orchard Nostalgic Photo: No. 3
Look what I found in the photo box today!
Here’s a photo taken around 1996 of me on the old Fergie 35.
Good times.
Hobbs Family Nostalgic Photos: No.1
Over the next few months I’ll be regularly posting nostalgic photos from the early years of Hobbs Orchard.
Nothing beats a walk down memory lane.
This photo of me and Mum was taken way back October 1993.
As you can see Mum’s gardens were just starting to evolve.
Autumn Colours At Hobbs Orchard!
Autumn is in full swing here at Hobbs Orchard.
Here’s a few pics I snapped out in the Apricot blocks today.
More Bottling!!
Ruby’s been on another bottling spree (she definately takes after Mum!)!
She found some empty jars in the storage shed so for the past few days she and our friend Anne have been bottling every spare piece of fruit they could get their hands on.
They had an absolute ball!!
Here’s a photo of the result:
Ruby and Anne’s bottling
And here’s a nice photo I took of the girls out the front of the Stall.
On A Fine March Evening
Here’s a photo of the evening sun streaming through some of the trees in the top Apricot block.
We Have Delicious Apples!!
We now have Red Delicious and Golden Delicious Apples available on the Stall in 10kg and 5kg bags for $10 and $5.
The Red Delcious Apple is one of the most widely cultivated Apple varieties in the world.
It is an excellent eating Apple and has a lovely flavour.
First cultivated in 1880 in Iowa, USA.
The Golden Delicious Apple is a wonderful old cooking Apple.
It’s great for bottling, saucing, stewing and pretty much anything you need a cooking Apple for!
First cultivated in 1905 in Virginia, USA.
Sunset At Hercules Flat
I took this photo tonight of a brilliant sunset and thought I’d share it with you all.
