It got its name because the orchard is now on the site of where a brickyard used to be. My parents both work at the hospital, and the hospital paid for any employee who wanted to attend. We went on a hayride through the orchards, and had supper afterward.
The orchard also grows pumpkins.
I had never gone on a hay ride before.
This was all we had to sit on, and there was nothing to hang on to. I ended up sitting where two bales met. Someone had previously sat there, so it was already sunk in a bit, but as the ride went on I felt myself sliding forward as the bales crushed in.
I had never realized how big of a place Brickyard Orchard was. From the road it doesn’t look like much, but their property goes way up into some woods, and they have groves and groves of apple trees up there.
There’s even a couple bodies of water in there. This is just a pond, but there is also a lake. You could not see much more than a small glimpse of it through the trees from our wagon though.
In case you are wondering, I don’t know who the people in my pictures are. They just happened to take the same hayride we did.
You probably notice these bird houses in some of my pictures. The guy who gave us the ride said that they have at least twenty bluebird houses because bluebirds eat tons of insects that destroy the apples.
One of the pumpkin patches, pretty picked over now.
This was the other hay wagon. I wish we could have taken that one. I wouldn’t have felt like I was going to fall out the whole time.
This is the guy who drove our wagon. he runs the place and he gave us a very good tour.
I was afraid these two kids were going to tumble right off. They would not keep still for anything.
We passed by a hunter’s blind in the woods at one point. Our driver told us that earlier a little girl had thought it was a potty.
Another bluebird house.
Arriving back.
They had a bouncy castle thing set up for kids to play with. At one point the kids had pretty much pulled the whole thing to the ground from the inside. I tried to get a picture, but my camera had died by that time.
The orchard is also famous for its Cherry Divine. We bought a gallon. It is SO good.
This was my supper. Not the pop, I had water. My junk food weakness is the Cheetos…
The brat was a Mushroom and Swiss brat. It was good, but it needed more mushrooms. Actually, if they hadn’t told me there was mushrooms in it, I wouldn’t have even known.
They have two dogs there. I gave this one the rest of my hot-dog bun. Once you’ve had my dad’s bread, you don’t care too much about the bought marshmallow-y variety anymore.
My dessert. Sour Cream Apple Pie. So good!
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