the weekend was good, even though i didn't do anything either night except go out to dinner with tommy saturday night at mehak. sunday was especially nice, as we journeyed down to fair charlottesville to hit up carter mountain orchard and strip it of all of its apples. tommy and i together probably picked about 200 lbs worth of the good stuff; now we just have to think of ways to use it. we also sampled apple cider and bought a few jugs, and had plenty of apple donuts and even sampled some wine from the orchard's grapes, which generally sucked. we all seem to be of the consensus that virginia whites are okay, but virginia reds make you want to retch on some poor child's face. susan makes a note here about the more, shall we say, sinister aspects of the festival.

anyway, many pies and crumbly things and other more creative apple recipes will have to be made. i'll put pictures of the pickage up tonight, if we don't go to trivia at fado, or tomorrow evening.

other things of note (to me, anyway)