Attempted cider tonight. I went over to Beer at Home (which it turns out is only a mile from my house) and rented a cider press. They had a nice new unit there they rent out for $15/day. Got that back home in time for jeremy and jeff to show up. Sean and Evelyn also were passing through and stopped to help out. We picked tons and tons of apples. Next step was to chop them up and get them into the cider press, which we managed to do just fine. Then the press didn't press. It would get to a point and then just be too hard to crank. We tried a number of things, discussed theories, but the best we could come up with is that the apples were too hard and needed to be mushed before cidering further. So, we are going to freeze the apples tonight, thaw them tomorrow and then try pressing them again tomorrow night. At least we got all the apples picked.