Apples, Apples, Apples

We have been greatly blessed with a huge crop of apples this year and the amazing thing is that hardly any of the apples have worms. It is amazing because we didn't even spray. We have harvested apples, Rex has harvested apples, Tedi harvested apples, some friends have harvested apples and we hauled 9 boxes down to Kelli and Ben and our trees are still loaded. These pictures will give you an idea -- they were taken after all of the before mentioned harvesting was done. Sometimes I think I actually hear the trees groaning from the weight.

Our basement shelves are filling up -- we got lots of grapes and Dad made lots of grape juice, I bought peaches and canned some of those and made jam, and we've spent several nights making applesauce and a little apple butter. I hope we can make a whole bunch of apple juice from many of the ones that are left, plus I'm sure we'll make more applesauce.