Last night the HH brought me home two boxes of FREE corn from his buddy Farmer Ted. Lucky for me, this years harvest didn’t coincide with our anniversary. Nope. He got me a real gift this year.
I was in a really good this morning {like in I got 10 hours of sleep last night!} and so shucking the corn was a snap. In fact I actually felt kind of giddy afterwards. Weird. I know.
So I decided to check in on my yellow transparent apple tree and was pleasantly surprise at the bumper crop we are enjoying this year. It’s the weirdest thing. No apples for 4 years then BAM… {the picture above represents about 1/5 of the apples we’ll be able to harvest this fall}. Not to shabby if you ask me.
Why is it that sometimes gardening and canning can seem like a chore, and other times. it’s makes you feel so alive?
See you later alligator…. I’ve got some canning to do.
~Mavis
Carol says
Have fun and know you have great food in the house……double win. 🙂
Betty D says
Those apples sure look good ….brings back memories…my sister and I put some up in the freezer one yr….and had
Apple Strudel all winter long. We put just enough in ziploc bags for a pie or a strudel. Add a scoop of ice cream…and its
out of this world….good….grin….your sure being blessed….Thanks for sharing.
Elizabeth in Upstate NY says
Yippee! Canning! It’s 8:30pm and the last [of the day] jars are in the canner. Today’s project: Rotkohl. Yeild: 13 pints and 6 quarts, plus lots of tasting and meal eating during the day. 15 gallons of sauerkraut made earlier this week. Now only apples on the canning schedule. Oh, and at least one batch of your carrot cake jam! Rest of the garden produce will be dried or eaten fresh!
Janet says
Transparents are usually ripe in July (I live in Edgewood, WA, near Puyallup). Are those Golden Delicious?
Cari says
This my first year with an apple crop and I have NO idea what to do with all of them. What are you making?