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FRUITFROMWASHINGTON.COM WEB-LETTER
October 2002
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Here comes the new Washington grown Jonagold crop! You'll recognize the parentage of Golden Delicious and Jonathan in these golden-red apples that are now ready to ship straight off the tree to you!

The Month of October Best Buy Special is the 15-count gift box of Jonagold Apples for $15.95 (+ shipping).

Also Special priced in October is a combination fruit gift box which includes 5 Red d'Anjou Pears and 10 Gala Apples for $17.95 (+ shipping). These Red d'Anjou dessert pears are a taste treat and the Galas are sweet flavored and crisp—excellent snacks for munching any time!

Fruit From Washington October Fruit Subscription Variety is a 20-count gift box of Jonagold Apples. If you don't have a fruit subscription with us, it's quite easy to get one started. Try our all new Apple of the Month, in a 15-count gift box, 6-month subscription order or Order Monthly Care Packages of 20-count Apples and Pears for yourself or for gifts that will be enjoyed throughout the year (also available in 9-month, 6-month and 3-month fruit of the month subscriptions).

Find out more about giving gifts of fruit. For phone orders, call toll-free 1-877-AT-FRUIT.

FruitFromWashington.com will include a card with your personalized message in every gift box that you send to friends and family.

See the classic garden furniture* section of our on-line catalog for beautiful retro-styled casual furniture manufactured in Ellensburg, Washington! FFW Manufacturing (formerly DPK Industries) Redwood Outdoor and Garden Furniture is made in Ellensburg, Washington. We offer solidly constructed and beautiful retro-styled Picnic Tables, Garden Cart, and Potting Table that will add a natural elegance to your home. *Free shipping on furniture, UPS Ground to addresses in 48 contiguous states.

It's always easy to buy gift boxes of Washington grown apples and pears or salsas, sauces and pepper jellies (See Quinn's Salsas, Sauces & Pepper Jellies
--GOURMET FOODS CATALOG!) from FruitFromWashington.com!

Harvest of Eberhart Orchards' late season apple and pear varieties in the Kittitas Valley continues well into October. Our 2002 crop selections, newly added to the online store, include Granny Smith, Jonagold, Golden Delicious and Fuji Apples. Plus we have family favorites, Washington grown Bartlett Pears and Red d'Anjous guaranteed to ripen up sweet and delicious.

From Walt Whitman’s Specimen Days, “The First Frost—Mems” (1892) -
Where I was stopping I saw the first palpable frost, on my sunrise walk, October 6; all over the yet-green spread a light blue-gray veil, giving a new show to the entire landscape. I had but little time to notice it, for the sun rose cloudless and mellow-warm, and as I returned along the lane it had turn’d to glittering patches of wet. As I walk I notice the bursting pods of wild-cotton, (Indian hemp they call it here,) with flossy-silky contents, and dark red-brown seeds—a startled rabbit—I pull a handful of the balsamic life-everlasting and stuff it down in my trowsers-pocket for scent.

October is National Apple Month—Try adding more apples and other apple products, such as apple juice and applesauce, to your diet this month and enjoy the nutritional benefits they have to offer.

From “October” by Robert Frost (1915)
O hushed October morning mild,
Thy leaves have ripened to the fall;
To-morrow’s wind, if it be wild,
Should waste them all.

And there's no denying the change of season now—Red, orange, and brown, fallen oak and maple leaves mix with the yellows of cottonwood and poplar. We search for the leaf rake and think, good upper body workout, this raking and piling of autumn leaves. Tackling the garden's exhausted tangle of lanky seed stalks and wizened vines, we half hope the soaking rains will wait, but when they arrive by mid-month, we welcome them along with the much anticipated start of burn season. Piles of yard and garden debris reach bonfire proportions and there are those smells that trigger memories of other Falls that have drifted past, like wisps of lazy smoke through the neighborhood.

Read our Customer Satisfaction and Order Fulfillment policies as well as more information for business gift giving on our Corporate Gift Giving page!

Mountain and Valley View Lot in beautiful Kittitas County, Washington —

We don't want to be guilty of hyping the holidays, at least not too much, too soon, but when it comes to October, it's hard to ignore Halloween...

Owls a hooting in the tree,
Pumpkins making faces mean
And lots of things that you can’t see
Tell us that it’s Hallowe’en.

...and just a reminder, "Don't forget to bob for (Washington) apples!"

According to Grandpa Dee, it was always the night before, on Halloween Eve, when junior high aged boys, maybe even high school aged, would go out and clip clotheslines. "It was a prank." he said. "You never did it on Halloween night, it was always the night before."

Thinking back to a time before Halloween was co-opted and organized by adults, Grandpa Dee and Grandma Barbara reminisced: "The little kids were more likely to soap windows. It was just 'trick'. There was none of this trick or treat business...nobody knocked on doors and expected to fill up a bag with candy."

Those were also the days when outhouses were tipped. Sometimes kids would scheme a way to put a carriage or a cow up on a roof. In Morse, Saskatchewan, when Great Aunt Hazel was just a little girl, she wanted to put the town sheriff's horse inside the school, but she couldn't get the horse, so she settled for a cow, and coaxed it up the steps into the school, then closed the door behind it. She never confessed and was never found out. No one suspected sweet, little Hazel to play such a Halloween prank.

Here's how to make an old fashioned Spooky Noisy Maker (also called a "Ticky Tack")—Take an empty wooden spool and notch it around the edges. Attach a string to it and wind it tightly around the spool. Put a nail or pencil through the hole in the spool to serve as a spindle. Holding the spindle, place the spool up against a window and quickly pull the string. It will make a frightful noise against the glass!

It's October and there's a chill in the air but that doesn't daunt the football players and fans in the family. Katie has planned a menu to feed a cold and hungry crowd after the game. It just takes a bit of organization and preparation. A good hot meal, cooked up in a slow cooker earlier in the day, and ready to dish up after the game will make you a star! Here's what you need to do early in the day:

1 - Make some hot Mulled Cider to take with you in a thermos—(along with your "Hot Bun" seat cushions for extra comfort in the cold).

2 - Make some Chicken Apple Curry (recipe below) in the crock pot so it will be hot and ready when you get home! Also put together a cheese and fruit platter because it's easy and can be brought out and served with a hardy loaf of french bread or peasant bread and the hot curry.

3 - Put together a dessert such as Baked Apple Crumble ahead of time, place it in the refrigerator, then pop it in the oven when you get home from the game. Serve hot with ice cream!

Quick Click Highlights for Autumn
• Fruit crate label screensaver • Fall Garden Tips • Garden Links • Cooking Links • Fruit Drying • Making Preserves - Jams, Jellies and More • Searchable recipe database • Computer wallpaper • Calorie Search • Fruit Calorie Search

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October 22, 2004

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