Wedding, Apple Juice, Baby Showers and Leather Projects
This title about sums up the major points of my week from Sunday’s wedding to this moment.
Tonight I finished canning all the apple juice that we girls and my mom juiced from thousands of apples on Tuesday…okay, after six hours of processing apples, it felt like a thousand! And it’s unbelievable how many apples go into making a few gallons of juice. Also incredible is the taste! This juice needs NO sugar. It’s from three varieties of apples and SO mouth-watering good!
So we processed the juice on Tuesday, or I should say, my girls did…they ran the juicer while my mom and I kept the cored apples coming. Along with the juice we also made more apple pie filling and applesauce for the freezer, and filled my dehydrator trays with more apple slices. For the past two days the juice has been taking up all my available refrigerator space giving the sludge sediment time to settle to the bottoms of the pitchers. Before canning, I had to strain the juice through a double thickness of cheesecloth, and you wouldn’t believe what a slow process that was! Lots of gunk stopped up the cheesecloth, so I had to keep rinsing it out and going again. But we have a few gallons of the best ever apple juice to look forward to consuming! (problem is, I’ve talked about it too much to family, they all want some! my daughters keep shushing me!)
Yesterday was the triple baby shower we hosted for some homeschool mom friends who all gave birth within the same week’s time…a great reason to throw a party! After cleaning up from that, I headed to church to help cook meals for family camp…fun to cook on a grand scale with three other women! We worked the logistics for six meals for 65 people…
Then last night my hubby and I worked till 3 A.M. on these trophy halters for our town’s Junior Ranch Rodeo this weekend (pictured next to several jars of my apple juice)…he and my oldest finished them up tonight at 11:30 P.M. Yawn.
Today we went to town yet again, to participate in a Zoo Education experience that was totally worth it. See my 8 year old manning a fire hose at one of the learn
ing centers?
So, I’ve barely been keeping up with *my* life in between apples, trips to town and daily details like laundry that needs done each morning even when I’m too busy…
Hope you all have a great weekend! See you next week…
Comment by MInTheGap
October 3, 2008 @ 9:29 am
Seems like you’ve been quite busy– but it’s a happy busy!
So, are you selling the juice through eBay or what? I mean, how am I supposed to get some?
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Comment by Mary
October 5, 2008 @ 3:51 pm
Ya know, I’d ship you some, but am not sure how it would travel!!! Lots of bubble wrap?
Yes, it’s been a happy busy, and we just got back from a weekend with church family at Family Camp, just the refresher I needed after last week! It’s good to be back.
Comment by weddings
November 10, 2008 @ 6:30 am
I tend to agree with most of what you said in your post but I
did post something related on my blog a while back.
Here’s just some of what I said in that post…
In that light, whoever plans the engagement party (likely the bride’s family, but it can be the engaged couple or anyone else who wants to plan the party) should plan a few games and activities designed to help everyone get to know everyone else.
Give it a read and if you have any opinions on it of your own,
feel free to give me a shout…
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Comment by Mary
November 12, 2008 @ 11:25 pm
Thanks, Weddings!