Happy Tuesday everyone! This past weekend is one I both love and hate each year. It’s the weekend we help pick apples at our neighbors house. They have 5 trees that are HUGE!! As in you need an extension ladder huge.
(This is just a 6 foot ladder…)
Some of their family comes over as well as several of us neighbors. We spend the morning picking then bring our bags of apples home and usually the afternoon or next day processing.
This year we didn’t make time for processing over the weekend. Everyone was going here and there it seemed. Sleepover, Manhattan choir fundraiser, fabricating and 3D printing in the garage and of course, leaving time to watch our Vikings play the Packers (the big border battle) in the inaugural game in the new stadium…SKOL Vikings! Our Vikings won-BTW!!!
On to Monday…this was my morning view complete with coffee as fuel for the day ahead….
Normally I process in the garage for more room but since I was doing it solo I brought the garage can inside.
After hours of peeling I had every extra large container I own full of sliced apples.
As well as a stock pot full cooking down to sauce. And the dehydrator with 6 trays loaded.
I ended up with 7 quarts that I canned…
The rest went into gallon freezer bags to be made into sauce at a later date.
As you can see by this photo it was now after 3pm and I was exhausted,
I also managed to get two loads of laundry washed during that time.
So my grand total for the day was: 7 quarts apple sauce canned, 2 quarts in fridge, 4 gallon bags of prepped apples in freezer, and a quart bag of dehydrated slices.
So like I said when I started…apple days…I have a love/hate relationship with them.
Today I’m going to have coffee with some friends then likely come home and can a few pints of diced tomatoes…or else pull up the garden and do the tomatoes tomorrow before the next round of rain.
What are you doing today?
