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Buck & Baby thanks us!

Next it to clean around the pond. You can see some of the fence and 5 apple trees, on the left side.

Pat


HemiTCoupe

I wanted to let you know how much your posting of the deer being so friendly and letting your wife get so close meant to an order of Catholic Sisters. My wife works at a ministry center, and it’s also the Sister’s home.

I sent the picture’s and my wife printed them out to give to give to one of the Sisters that’s always’ talking to my wife about the deer on our property. So if we get a good picture we send it to her. One time I was able to get a picture of a baby Falcon, and she was thrilled with that picture.

Well, she was so fascinated she is taking it around to all of the Sister’s and her friends, and to the nursing home that is on their property also. These sisters range in age from 60’s to 90’s

Again thanks for posting the pictures along with the information of the people in the community caring for them.

Richard

Chokecherry and guava sound pretty exotic. We are moving on to round two of apple preserves and I think maybe a batch of Martzen home brew may be in order. I still have all my home brewing stuff including carboys, kegs(5 gal and 3 gal) and co2 setup. It's al;ways dangerous making the stuff in a keg(with only me and the wife drinking it!) This year I think I'll bottle it. We still have summer tomatoes growing and ripening, which is hard to believe right now, but this summer was cool to start, so everthing got a late start. Last year I has Siberian varieties that would fruit right now, but the summer varieties were long gone!
Any recipes for apple jack would be appreciated too! Now back to the hot rods.

I;m canning 6 qts of tomatoes right now.

I can/pickle Guda(sp?) Armenian cucumbers, a cabbage celery carrot mix and Armenian peppers. A couple dozen jars of each get me through the year. My wife and I set up the kitchen on a Saturday and go for it. UUUMMMM fresh garlic smell is so much better than Foo Foo candles!

Yeah that sounds good! We are picking the rest of the tomatoes and making sauce out of them this weekend. We use it so fast, that we just put it in freezer bags, and pop them in the freezer.

I racked my wild plum and wild grape wine this morning, freeze and snow coming tomorrow so I picked all the tomatoes and the last of the squash.

We got our first frost this morning so I'll will back to pressing the late apples in the next few days. So far 200 imp gallons in the freezers.
3 coho salmon off to a bud who will smoke them for us in trade for cider.
Our daughters teamed up and processed 5 gallons of plums into all kinds of tasty jelly and sauce this week.
We put the last of the blueberries into the freezer.
Time to dug the spuds
Our Thanksgiving coming up next Monday.
We have plenty to be thankful around here

apples apples apples, do I ever know what your talking about. Our acreage has 50 apple trees on it ( not planted by me ) so we also have apple sauce all year long.
People come from all over to pick apples. This year we put a sign up for free will donations and we've gotten $300 so far, I would never have guessed we would get that much.

Originally Posted by TOW'D

We got our first frost this morning so I'll will back to pressing the late apples in the next few days. So far 200 imp gallons in the freezers.
3 coho salmon off to a bud who will smoke them for us in trade for cider.
Our daughters teamed up and processed 5 gallons of plums into all kinds of tasty jelly and sauce this week.
We put the last of the blueberries into the freezer.
Time to dug the spuds
Our Thanksgiving coming up next Monday.
We have plenty to be thankful around here

Nice job! You must have a big freezer! And a big press!

The best we ever did with the homemade cider press was 60 gal per hour
on average we make 40 gal per hour
For one pressing we grind up 10 5 gal buckets of apples in 15 minutes
and get from 8 to 15 gal of juice depending on how juicy the apples are around here Gravenstein are the best
Between 5 friends/family splitting up the juice we do OK
plenty to trade and have fresh tasting juice all year

we freeze the juice in 1 Liter milk containers with a plastic bag inside
they freeze standing upright and cover the bottom of the freezer
90 - one Liter containers per layer usually 2 layers each freeezer
we have 3 freezers in our house and everybody else has a couple each

I let the the "old man's special" apple juice sit in a plastic bucket with a lid on for a couple weeks on the cool porch and it comes out sparkling and damn easy to drink.
We pour the cider into a stainless steel deep tray and freeze it.
the water freezes and the essence of cider stays unfrozen and tastes like
nothing else - we call it Bella Cooler- mixes well with a little octane booster if you know what I mean.

hank

Hank that sounds so good it makes my mouth water.