For the Barn Collective with Tom the Backroads Traveller I’m showing barns from the back roads of the Northern Olympic Peninsula in Washington State.
On Dear and my road trip to the westernmost tip of the contiguous United States on July 15th & 16th we drove by these barns.
How about a barn converted into a winery?
On a personal kind of farming note of the orchard variety…on Saturday I had to pick apples off our apple tree because they had started falling off the tree on their own in huge numbers. Since I had given my pricey fruit picker to our son for a Christmas stocking gift, no it didn’t fit into his stocking technically but it did fit in the back of his pick-up, I was without an implement that would make reaching the apples on the upper branches easily. I stepped into our newly cleaned out and re-organized garage, the product of my husband’s extra time on his hands since being without a job right now. I looked around and spotted the two 4 paks of bamboo tiki torches that have been waiting for an occasion for many years now. I thought to myself…that could work for picking apples off my tree. I took the lighter out of the top and proceeded to the tree. This new farm implement worked like a charm! I could even snatch two apples with one going down into the reservoir before having to empty them into my apple basket! I was quite proud of myself and my easy apple picking venture!
Have a great last week of July!
The Happy Wonderer ~ ellen b. 
How inovative (sp?) with the tiki torch! What will you make with the apples? I really like the last barn photo.
Number 3 is my favorite! What an inventive gal you are Ellen. Thanks for linking up this week and I hope that you return again.
I love to travel country roads and observe barns, and can only imagine the stories they could tell, your barn photos are so lovely.
Wow! You might have just invented a new way of picking apples, they look delicious, hopefully what’s left of ours will be ready soon, the deer have had a field day with ours.
Blessings,
Sue
You’re a smart cookie! So much better than climbing a ladder and better than picking up drops, too. Wondering what next smart thing you’ll do with them.
Looks like you folks were back up in our neck of the woods. We just had our inaugural NW Colonial Festival, a reenactment of the Battles of Lexington and Concord. (Link: https://georgewashingtoninn.wordpress.com/2015/07/26/nw-colonial-festival-is-launched/) With your love of history, I hope you can come next year!
Looks like a great event!
Yes…you are a smart cookie! Maybe you can patent that idea…your apple picker. Great barn pic’s too.
What a great apple picker!! Who would have thought?
I love that barn turned into a winery…not that the others aren’t nice.