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    My Handy Man!

    October 28, 2008 - By 


    I just had to share with you the awesome cart my husband made from scraps of lumber and spare parts around the house. I wish we’d taken pictures along the process but we completed forgot.

    I painted the cart with Home Depot “OOPS” paint after he filled then sanded the seams and screw holes.

    I’m excited about having fresh herbs all winter and the prospect of starting my own seedlings for next years garden.

    **I have to mention that it wasn’t just scrap lumber, it was reclaimed lumber from a catapult that my husband and the neighbor kid built one weekend this past summer to shoot water balloons.**

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    Please…no more apples!

    September 30, 2008 - By 

    I’m done…I can’t do it any more. We processed 3 grocery bags full of apples. My husband was very helpful on Sunday by peeling nearly 2 bags worth before noon. The afternoon was spent making sauce. And then again Monday and Tuesday. My collar bone/shoulder connection got very sore!! (Childhood injury, that gets aggravated from repetitive motion.)

    I can’t even begin to guess how much berry applesauce is in my freezer! Gallons and gallons of it! It’s so awesome though…nearly free (cost of lemon juice, berries and electricity for the stove).

    I honesty ran out of plastic containers to freeze the sauce in… If I make any more…which I highly doubt…I’ll have to can it. And THAT is SO much more work!

    Now hopefully I can back to ART!!

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    Apples!!!!!

    September 27, 2008 - By 



    We went to help the neighbor pick their apples today.

    It took under 3 hours to pick 44 grocery bags of apples!! Crazy huh!?!?

    Now comes the processing part. Washing, chopping, cooking, dehydrating, preserving, freezing… you get the picture. Yikes!

    UPDATE: I was corrected by the neighbor…It was 48 bags of apples plus a bushel basket.