"Today's Talk Like a Pirate Day...and I forgot to celebrate it...again!" I exclaimed to Mark Thursday.

"You mean today's our anniversary?" he replied.

I wracked my brain, trying to remember when we got married.  "Oops, um, yeah."  Then, picking up steam, "So it's pretty special that we harvested the apples from our Virginia Beauty today because it's our wedding anniversary!"

"That's right!" Mark agreed.  "My aunt gave us that tree from her neighbor's heirloom apple nursery as a wedding present."

"I guess I should have gotten you something for this anniversary, huh?" I mused, then wandered off to google the traditional gift for a fourth anniversary.  "Fruit or flowers!" I exclaimed.  "And you got me fruit today!"

"Well, really, you got me fruit," said Mark, referring to the way I cut up the dropped apples for our lunch.  But I was intent, instead, on the fact that my sweet husband had reached high into the tree to pluck the apples over my head, then shaken the trunk to get the last four from the tippy-top to fall.

Husband-wife apple-picking --- the best anniversary gift ever!  We may have to pretend it's our fourth wedding anniversary every year, although next year's traditional gift (wood) sounds pretty good.  Maybe it will equate to an extra-full woodshed?

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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.



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