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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.

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    Completed old projects..starting new

    September 26, 2008 - By 



    I finally bound some old tip-in and smaller size pages into one book this week.

    I’m on a mission to finish all these UFO’s (unfinished objects) I’ve started somewhere along the line.

    I was chatting with a neighbor just this evening over the bonfire about memory and lack thereof. Is it Adult-ADD or short-term memory loss but whatever you want to call it…I’ve got it!!! Geez… I can’t walk down the 2 sets of stairs to the basement and remember what the heck it was I went down there for!
    OK…I think I’m on a tangent now….

    My original point was…I have a ton of projects started or even nearly complete but never seem to tie up all my loose ends. THAT is my new mission.

    With that said….haha…I have started a new project or more of a challenge. It’s a call for art from Somerset Memories magazine. It can be either a group or an individual using ONE IMAGE to create a multitude of art. Of course since it will be up for submission I won’t be showing what I’ve created until I’ve heard the news either way… I hope to get my projects in the mail next week for consideration.