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), quartered them to fit in the attachment Hubby bought for my Kitchen Aid, dropped them in and wallah....applesauce out one end and seeds, skin and stems out the other end. It
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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