Started this morning around 930. Went to the neighbor's house.(who happen to be my husband's aunt and uncle) We cut up, cooked, and strained 5 bushels of apples. (3 were for his aunt and cousins - 2 were for us)
We use Cortland apples. I really love the taste - we don't even add sugar to ours. Plus, at our local orchard, a bushel of "seconds" (the not so pretty apples) are only $11. So for $22 I got 38 quarts of applesauce. Well, $22 and a whole day of work. (And the cost of lids - so maybe an extra $5.) Still less than a dollar a quart, which I find to be pretty amazing. And it's supporting a great local business. All in all a day well spent.
I'm dead tired, and just set the final time for the last jars to be canned. So, if I'm lucky, I'll be in bed by 1... And up again around 7am. No sleeping in for this Mommy.
On a side note. If you can avoid watching episodes of shows on thewb.com, do so. I am trying to watch Fringe - and they have the first 10 episodes of season 1. I was trying to watch an episode and it would keep stopping and playing a minute of ads - and then it would try to start playing the next episode. So I would have to click on the other episode, so it would play a minute of ads - then I would click to where in the episode I was - another minute of ads... Arg!! This happened probably 4 times, at least. And the best part? Most of the time it was the same ad - back to back.... I really, really wish this series was streaming on Netflix or Hulu or Amazon....
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