Applesauce

The European hornets, yellow jackets and bald
hornets like apples too.
Which ones are you seeing here?

The taste of warm fresh applesauce is the taste of Fall. We awoke to cool air this morning. Jacket weather. Everything says Fall. Tomorrow is the last day of September. Oh, where did it go?

You can tell I don't do many selfies. Lol

We began cutting the apples last evening. After baking 7 fruit pies and 10 loaves of zucchini bread. The boys are working hard these days. (The two youngest are my helpers. The others are out on the job, staining decks.)

That's four bushels or more.

After delivering the baked goods to market this morning we drove to Delray to deliver milk to the family who shares the milk cow and picked up lots more tomatoes. They had so graciously picked them for us.

You mostly see Golden Delicious (deer apples) here.
We had gotten some from Delray earlier and we're mixing the two.

We cut apples again until time to leave for P.E. at school. Upon returning the boys cut more while I began cooking them. Then it was cooking, straining, putting in jars, repeat and repeat. We put most of it in plastic "jars" for the freezer. 

There is still a ways to go. But another day. Tomorrow I will again see how much of the house I can clean. It feels like I'm majorly spinning my wheels these days. Now it's time to enjoy a cup o' tea.

This blueberry green tea is really delicious.

Here is a de-cluttering video it might pay to watch.

How was your day?

All in a day

Before the sun grew too warm, we picked blueberries. Maybe half the patch. I carried a handful in against my body after the pail left the patch.

 On the way to the house I saw the butterfly bush was in bloom.

And the Rose of Sharon.

 The crop for today. 3 quarts maybe?

 A few blackberries.

 Then it was kitchen cleanup time. Melvin cleared the counter. Christopher put dishes away.

 Washing fell to mother.

 Kitchen clean and ready to begin baking.

 Frozen zucchini in a pack on the counter to thaw. A few clean dishes left to put away.

 Pie crust in the making. Ice cream scoops work well for scooping shortening.

 Melvin prepares the apples, while listening to Tom Sawyer (audio book).

 Christopher mixes the zucchini bread.

 Batter in the pans ready for the oven.

Baking.

Peaches in the crusts. We prepared the peaches last week and froze them. Once in the pie shells they get topped with a sugar/flour/spice mixture.

First pies in the oven.

Christopher takes a break to stitch up a sheath for his wooden sword.

The last pies are in the oven.

 The kitchen is clean once again.

 Black beans are cooking with a pork loin for supper.

 Zucchini bread packaged and ready for the market.

 Melvin stitching a sheath for his sword (wooden).

 The second load of laundry that was washed today is ready to be folded.

 All folded...

 ...and Melvin carries it to the rooms.

 VBS begins this evening. Stephen needs the song on a large tablet so I work on that.

 Handwriting does not cut it, so I resort to the computer.

The last pies are out of the oven. I made a blueberry pie for my men with leftover crusts.

Christopher relaxing with a digital book.

At VBS. The children have gone to their classrooms and the committee is conferring. The SonShine Farm brightens the front of the room. I get to relax this week! They gave the regular teachers of the weekly Kid's Club a break this week. 

Back home I finish labeling the baked goods. Everything is ready to go to market in the morning. Ten peach pies, five apple pies, fourteen loaves of zucchini bread.

Praise the Lord for another day to serve Him by serving people! 

Do you feel like you're serving the Lord when you are doing the mundane tasks of the day?

That's the best way to do it!