Apples, apples and more apples

I blame my lack of blogging this week on apples. My family goes and picks apples at an orchard near their house where they can get them for like 30 cents a pound so they asked if I wanted some and I of course said YES! well they went a little crazy picking this year and we ended up with a bushel of apples. Which when I first saw them on Saturday I thought wow that is a lot of apples but I will dry a bunch and make some into apple pie filling and we should be good, well it is now Thursday and I have been working on these apples everyday. It reminds me of Mary Poppins bottomless carpet bag-I swear I work up like 20 or so apples and then I look in the bag and there is barely a dent gone. But I am down to the last few today so hopefully I can return the apple peeler I borrowed. That is definitely a handy tool by the way, my parents have one that suctions to the table and it makes life super easy! Not that I or Alan are complaining he is especially in heaven since we now have 18 quarts of apple pie filling ready to go! And one great by product is that our house smells like cinnamon and apples the perfect autumn sent. I am just glad I am done, who knew I would spend all week up to my elbows in apples!