on the farm

Got to go out to Asan yesterday with our friends. It was COLD, but we were able to pick apples, persimmons and ginko nuts. We also spent a lot of time with the one one-eyed chicken. Good times.

 Note that there are no longer socks on the poor boy's hand, but finished mittens.  :)

 

Just like milkweed pods, but on vines...

and just as fun to play with.

 

Picking persimmons first with a ladder.

Then the apples. 

 

 

Warming up inside doing some coloring before leaving for home.  

 

Just a quick note about the ginko nut picking. 

http://doorbell.net/lukes/a111503.htm

 Koreans are the only people I know that will look at the fallen fruits of a tree, note that they smell like the most awful smell imaginable, and then think, maybe we can figure out a way to eat them.  You pick the fruits up off the ground, put them in huge bowls of water to wash off the stinky fruit part, then do a second washing to get rid of the outer coating further, then dry the nuts until they are a lovely shade of white.  (Ours are out on the "veranda")  You then eat them in a number of ways - in soups, with rice, and simply put in the microwave then cracked out of their shells like pistachios.