Collecting fruit for apple pie filling, apple butter and applesauce.
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homemade peach jam and wholewheat bread made with freshly ground wheat flour. Yum!
picking apples
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Stonehenge My dad and I went along with a tour group from the US to learn more about the history of Operation Tiger. We got to meet two American veterans who also came to England. I learned the history of Operation Tiger which I had not been aware of before. This year is the 70th Anniversary of Operation Tiger. They had a big ceremony at Slapton Sands near a tank that was recovered after the war. Exercise Tiger , or Operation Tiger , was the code name for one in a series of large-scale rehearsals for the D-Day invasion of Normandy , which took place on Slapton Sands or Slapton Beach in Devon . (In late 1943) Coordination and communication problems resulted in friendly fire deaths during the exercise, and an Allied convoy positioning itself for the landing was attacked by E-boats of the German Kriegsmarine , resulting in the deaths of 946 American servicemen. [1] [2] [3] The incident w...
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These are actually some friends of mine I stayed with for a few days. My family is similar to theirs so it isn't that different from what a day in our life would look like. Except for their cow and milk goats- we only have a donkey and Boer goats!
Have a great day!