On apples.
We are "doing apples".
This meant that on Friday night I went to the club, had rather the usual fun, and then stayed up so that when the sun came up, before it went awful and hot, we could go out to the trees in our back yard and to other trees at abandoned houses and pick apples. And peaches; one house had a peach tree, and we got about a bushel off it.
So we have about three bushels of apples and a bushel of peaches.
Currently one half bushel has been made into applesauce and is currently gently steaming down into apple butter in the turkey roaster, as that doesn't heat the place up like the oven. The other apples have mostly been cored (though not peeled) and will be turned into various yummy goodies in due course, including applesauce, apple relish, and an apple preserve with cranberries and liqueur and such. The peaches are going to become peach jam with amaretto since I have peaches and I have amaretto, and I can get pectin off the cores of the apples. (aren't I clever?)
Bear thinks he will be well enough to go back to work Monday, which is a great relief. It is getting very very difficult managing without money, and the pantry is drawn down enough that it's getting tough to cook.
As my neck and shoulders Have Opinions about me handling the picking pole today, I am going to now take a muscle relaxant and a sleeping pill and go. to. bed.
This meant that on Friday night I went to the club, had rather the usual fun, and then stayed up so that when the sun came up, before it went awful and hot, we could go out to the trees in our back yard and to other trees at abandoned houses and pick apples. And peaches; one house had a peach tree, and we got about a bushel off it.
So we have about three bushels of apples and a bushel of peaches.
Currently one half bushel has been made into applesauce and is currently gently steaming down into apple butter in the turkey roaster, as that doesn't heat the place up like the oven. The other apples have mostly been cored (though not peeled) and will be turned into various yummy goodies in due course, including applesauce, apple relish, and an apple preserve with cranberries and liqueur and such. The peaches are going to become peach jam with amaretto since I have peaches and I have amaretto, and I can get pectin off the cores of the apples. (aren't I clever?)
Bear thinks he will be well enough to go back to work Monday, which is a great relief. It is getting very very difficult managing without money, and the pantry is drawn down enough that it's getting tough to cook.
As my neck and shoulders Have Opinions about me handling the picking pole today, I am going to now take a muscle relaxant and a sleeping pill and go. to. bed.