Friday, August 10, 2012

Making Applesauce

Blog EntryOct 16, '09 8:58 PM
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Thursday I stood for quite some time and watched the sunrise between the trees and contemplated what the day ahead might hold. I sent out some emails, put fresh sheets on the bed - the flannel ones because it's so cold so early this year - washed the sheets I took off the bed, walked Suki, dyed my hair, painted both my fingernails and my toenails a rosy-copper color and wondered to myself why I was bothering to paint my toenails since they will be confined to shoes and boots for many months and then realized it was for no other reason than I like how they look when they're painted. I had homemade soup for lunch, checked my email again, packed a light supper and went to work. I only had a few ladies come in, I got quite a lot of reading done which I was glad for because I need to return the book to it's owner soon. When I got home from work I found Hubby had begun work on canning applesauce from apples he picked on the bike trail; it was his idea and our first attempt at canning anything. After walking Suki again I set to work helping him. We started with a box full of small apples (and this box was fuuuuuull when we started), applesauce09  quartered them to fit in the attachment Hubby bought for my Kitchen Aid, applesauce09  dropped them in apt,applesauce09  and wallah....applesauce out one end and seeds, skin and stems out the other end. applesauce09It wasn't difficult, but I had a lot of gadgets and things to wash which took a lot of time. By the time I was done I was very tired and my back and shoulders hurt from so much washing and bending over the table quartering the apples. While the jars of fragrant applesauce were in the pot boiling we each had a bowl of it while it was still hot. All I can say is I am forever ruined for the grocery store variety!! This stuff is great!! It's been neat watching Hubby since we moved into this house, he has taken on a domestic side I've never seen before. He seems to enjoy cutting wood and stoking the wood stove in the winter, he came up with the idea to start canning and he wants to plot and prepare for a vegetable garden in the back yard and he eventually plans to try his hand at making his own root-beer.

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