The last canning of the year...

First, the crew assembles to pick the last
apples of the season















Oh, look at that view! Orchard is to the left,
right and behind us too! The community garden
is behind us as well.















All hands to apple picking! Lissa LOVES picking
apples. Too bad I was shooting against what little
light we had so you can't see the gi-normeous
grin on her face!















Older brother hates the smell of apples. He doesn't
like to pick apples. But these Suncrisp apples
have next to no smell at all and soon...














KC gets in the act too! Rob climbed up a tree
to retrieve a really HUGE apple, and He was
so proud to have overcome his fear of heights
to get it.
Spent all day today making apple pie filling
(and a fresh apple pie, too) from all the apples
we picked yesterday. I made 6 quarts this a.m.
and 9 this afternoon. Once the timer goes off
the canner will go down cellar for the season.
I'm very tired, but it's a "good" tired! Now we
can enjoy apple treats all winter long. Nothing
like putting a pie in the oven when it's snowing
like crazy outside, knowing that we picked the
fruit 4 miles from our home!