{"id":77,"date":"2006-10-23T16:52:35","date_gmt":"2006-10-23T23:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thestidhams.com\/kathleen\/wp\/?p=77"},"modified":"2006-10-23T16:59:16","modified_gmt":"2006-10-23T23:59:16","slug":"successful-apple-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thestidhams.com\/kathleen\/wp\/?p=77","title":{"rendered":"Successful Apple Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday&#8217;s apple festival at the local grange hall was great fun.  I think everyone who came had a good time, and I hope that it helped our friends who provide the lovely heirloom apples!  All of us were able to help with set-up, serving and clean-up.  The weather was lovely and the people who came were just as nice as the weather!<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few pics.\u00a0 If you let your mouse hover over the picture, you&#8217;ll get a caption.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" align=\"bottom\" title=\"the grange where the festival was held\" alt=\"the grange where the festival was held\" src=\"https:\/\/thestidhams.com\/familypics\/blogpics\/apples\/1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" align=\"bottom\" alt=\"the iconic fruit stand truck and sign\" title=\"the iconic fruit stand truck and sign\" src=\"https:\/\/thestidhams.com\/familypics\/blogpics\/apples\/2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" align=\"bottom\" alt=\"Janine, at the entrance -- co-owner of fruit stand\" title=\"Janine, at the entrance -- co-owner of fruit stand\" src=\"https:\/\/thestidhams.com\/familypics\/blogpics\/apples\/3.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" align=\"bottom\" alt=\"boys helping set up\" title=\"boys helping set up\" src=\"https:\/\/thestidhams.com\/familypics\/blogpics\/apples\/4.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" align=\"bottom\" title=\"baked apples\" alt=\"baked apples\" src=\"https:\/\/thestidhams.com\/familypics\/blogpics\/apples\/5.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I did not bake anything for this&#8230;\u00a0 just served it up.\u00a0 That&#8217;s me, in the apron.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" align=\"bottom\" title=\"apple pies and applesauce cake!\" alt=\"apple pies and applesauce cake!\" src=\"https:\/\/thestidhams.com\/familypics\/blogpics\/apples\/6.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" align=\"bottom\" title=\"the hall fills with customers\" alt=\"the hall fills with customers\" src=\"https:\/\/thestidhams.com\/familypics\/blogpics\/apples\/7.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" align=\"bottom\" title=\"my parents came!\" alt=\"my parents came!\" src=\"https:\/\/thestidhams.com\/familypics\/blogpics\/apples\/8.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" align=\"bottom\" title=\"winter squash for sale...\" alt=\"winter squash for sale...\" src=\"https:\/\/thestidhams.com\/familypics\/blogpics\/apples\/9.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" align=\"bottom\" title=\"The reason for it all!  Apples.\" alt=\"The reason for it all!  Apples.\" src=\"https:\/\/thestidhams.com\/familypics\/blogpics\/apples\/10.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For those who may not be familiar, a &#8220;grange hall&#8221; is a meeting place, originally established in farming and rural communities.  The grange membership is composed of community members who work to make life better for the community, and they make their buildings available to people for events.<\/p>\n<p>As a side note, this is the hall where my beloved and I had our first year&#8217;s anniversary party&#8230;  since we hadn&#8217;t done the whole &#8220;wedding thing&#8221; it was our chance to share our happiness with friends and family.  More on that (and a few pics) another time&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday&#8217;s apple festival at the local grange hall was great fun. I think everyone who came had a good time, and I hope that it helped our friends who provide the lovely heirloom apples! All of us were able to help with set-up, serving and clean-up. The weather was lovely and the people who came [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestidhams.com\/kathleen\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestidhams.com\/kathleen\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestidhams.com\/kathleen\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestidhams.com\/kathleen\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestidhams.com\/kathleen\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thestidhams.com\/kathleen\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestidhams.com\/kathleen\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestidhams.com\/kathleen\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestidhams.com\/kathleen\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}