Monday, November 1, 2010

Let’s Go For A Walk…

Join me…

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Oh no… we aren’t stopping here – although I could use a little help cleaning out the rest of the tomato plants… I am so over the tomatoes.

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Out here a little further in the yard - here is where we are going… isn’t she a lovely tree?

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The Stayman Apples are ready… they are a late variety so we will be picking for a couple weeks.

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Mostly just picking up the ones that fall.  Some will fall with no damage but many will bounce on a limb on the way down… I’ve even had to pick bark out of some of them.  I was out here earlier (on Sunday) to pick up around the tree – these two just fell so I’ll take them in and add them to the ones I’ll salvage by cutting the bad parts out.

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These are the ones that have ended up in the mulch pile on Friday… damaged by the fall and or munched on by the bugs.  Once picking season has begun it’s easier to keep things cleaned up around the tree on a daily basis.  I know we could have salvaged a good portion of many of these apples by cutting out the bad parts… but on Friday (when we cleaned up) my sister took home approx. four 5 gallon buckets of apples to make sauce with.  I also unloaded gifted a 5 gallon bucket to the quilt shop…

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These are sitting in my kitchen doorway… I picked them up on Sunday when I took these pictures…

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And I cut up the damaged ones I picked up to make Apple Crisp.  Assembled and ready for the oven – boy this sure is good – especially with ice cream.

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There are lots of apples still up there…

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I’ll be taking some with me when I head up to the A Quilters Gathering this week up in Nashua NH - dropping off some with my daughter in MA as I go by.

1 comment:

smiledarlin said...

So far it's 6 half pints, 28 pints and 16 qts and I have a 5 gal bucket of cut apples to cook today.
AND STILL have 2 more 5 gal buckets to empty....

I'm feelin' saucy....