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Fall Is Apple Time! Ant Time Too :(

Imagine my excitement and surprise when

B and T brought a huge box of homegrown Apples!

They came from her Aunt, who has 4 Apple Trees,

 ♥♥♥♥

and smell divine!

Simply delicious!

Visions of Applesauce, Cakes, 

Crisps and more danced through my head.

Right away I knew I wanted to make an Apple Hill Cake.

When we lived in Sacramento we used to visit Apple Hill every Fall.

Apple pickin', Craft Vendors, Antiquing, Kids Activities

and the aroma of ALL the baked goods

that the 50 different ranches make.

APPLE HILL CAKE

2 c. sugar
1/2 c. vegetable oil

2 eggs

4 c. diced apples

2 c. flour

1 tsp. salt
2 tsp. cinnamon

1/4 tsp. nutmeg

1 tsp. baking soda

Combine sugar, oil and eggs.

Add diced apples.

Sift together flour, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg and baking soda.

 Add to apple mixture.

Pour into 9x13 inch greased cake pan.

Bake for 1 hour and 350 degrees.

Serve warm or cold.

 

Yum!!

Next was Applesauce.
So I pulled out my vintage canning jars,
 that belonged to my Mother and Grandmother,
 and went to town.

I love having homemade Applesauce for Easter Dinner.

Chunky Applesauce

24 cups apples, cored, quartered and peeled

1 - 1 1/2 cups sugar

2 cups water

2 Tablespoons Cinnamon

In a kettle combine apples and 2 cups water.

Bring to boil;

reduce heat and simmer 8 - 10 minutes,

stirring often.

Mash with potato masher.

Add sugar and cinnamon,

mix thoroughly.

Bring to a boil again.

Spoon Applesauce into hot, clean jars,

leaving a 1/2' - 1" head space.

Wipe rims; adjust lids.

Makes 6 pints.

Water Bath Canning

Process in water bath for 20 minutes for pints or quarts.

Start timing when water boils.

Freezing

Prepare Applesauce as above.

Cool

Spoon Applesauce into freezer containers, leaving head space..

Seal, label, and freeze.

I made one batch Rustic Allpesauce by leaving the peels on.

Lots of vitamins in those peels. 

Garden Tip

What to do with all those Apple peels and cores....

Besides putting them into your compost pile, I found this 

method to keep ants away from your home.

Place apple pieces, cores, or apple peelings any where ants enter your home

or you have seen them enter the house.

There is something about the acid in the apple that will kill the ants

when they take it back to their own home!

I tossed those peels and cores all over the backyard!

"just feeding the ants" she said with a devilish grin.

I should be ant free any day now!



House Beautiful Comparison

Miriam Schulman of Schulman Art 

pinned an inspiring post which shows

you how to "get the look" for less when

Decorating for a Dark, Moody and Sensual Bedroom.

"Moises Esquenazi designed a little L.A. House with a lot of California cool.

This bedroom was featured in House Beautiful (July 29, 2008).

You can mix high and low end design resources to

copy the look yourself for your own space."

Which she did by searching the depth of Esty's halls,

finding Treasures to suggest.

I was so excited to find she was kind enough to include my Foot Stool!

Thank you so much Miriam!

Schulman Art

A Surprise!

Whew! Where have the weeks gone?

I know I'm a tired old record but geesh!

It's already the middle of the month!

Before another day passes and I miss the garden memes again,

I managed to "play" in the front yard for a bit over the weekend.

You know weeding, pruning, thinning...all that "fun" stuff.

But to my surprise I stumbled upon mt FIRST Pomegranate!!

I didn't even see the poor thing bloom!

It's not quite ripe yet...

just a bit longer.

I was also surprised at it's size.

Not bad for the very first one ever.

mmmm, I can't wait to taste it!

Don't you just love it when Mother Nature decorates for you?!

Wishing all a wonderful Fall weekend!

♥♥♥

Oh and for those of you who asked...

I made it through the Stress Test and Echo!

Don't want to do that treadmill anywhere in the near future....

NOT a fun time I tell ya!

Results next Tuesday...

Reality Tour

There was a health fair downtown last weekend which offered a

glimpse into the world of those suffering from dementia, as well as other health screenings.

The free fair was sponsored by the Newman Forum of SEAPA

(Stanislaus Elder Abuse Prevention Alliance)

The main feature, “Dementia Reality Tour”, was a 20-minute exercise

which simulates what life is like for somebody locked into the world of dementia.

Participants in the tour are asked to complete a series of basic household tasks while wearing goggles, headsets and cumbersome gloves which simulate dementia.

M, T and I went through it.

We were given large thick gloves to wear, along with blurry goggles which also had reinforcement circles in the center. Seeing wasn't easy.

We were also given to put inside our shoes pieces of plastic runner that you had to wear pointy sides up...yeow!

But with older people they often have neuropathy,

and this was to show what they may feel when they walk.

The headphones gave you directions for 3 tasks at a time,

 but in between there were loud sirens,

children playing, adults talking,

people whispering, a phone ringing

and other distractions.

And they WERE distractions!

I finally finished putting on a shirt and buttoning it (which was no easy feat)

but forgot what the next task was.

When the phone rang in the headphones I stopped and looked for it!

I don't think I finished half of the tasks....let alone did many correct. 

It was just so eye-opening,

and it reaffirmed a lot of things we had gone through with my parents.

It brought back to me a lot of things that we had lived.

 I realized how difficult it was for my parents,

and how ignorant I was to what they was going through.

It is a must for us all, not matter what age.

If something like this comes to your town

and you are able to attend,

please do.

It will be the most insightful 20 mins of your life.

♥♥♥

Questons You Just Can't Answer

Did you ever stop and wonder......


Why doesn't Tarzan have a beard when he lives in the jungle without a razor?


Why do we press harder on a remote control when we know the batteries are flat?


Why do banks charge a fee on 'insufficient funds' when they know there is not enough?


Why do Kamikaze pilots wear helmets?


Why does someone believe you when you say there are four billion stars, but check when you say the paint is wet?


Whose idea was it to put an 'S' in the word 'lisp'?


What is the speed of darkness?


Why is it that people say they 'slept like a baby' when babies wake up every two hours?


If the temperature is zero outside today and it's going to be twice as cold tomorrow, how cold will it be?


Do married people live longer than single ones or does it only seem longer?


How is it that we put man on the moon before we figured out it would be a good idea to put wheels on luggage?


Why do people pay to go up tall buildings and then put money in binoculars to look at things on the ground?
Who was the first person to look at a cow and say, 'I think I'll squeeze these pink dangly things here, and drink whatever comes out?'


Who was the first person to say, 'See that chicken there... I'm gonna eat the next thing that comes outta it's bum.'


Why do toasters always have a setting so high that could burn the toast to a horrible crisp, which no decent human being would eat?


Why do people point to their wrist when asking for the time, but don't point to their bum when they ask where the bathroom is?


Why does your Gynaecologist leave the room when you get undressed if they are going to look up there anyway?


Why does Goofy stand erect while Pluto remains on all fours? They're both dogs !


If quizzes are quizzical, what are tests?


If corn oil is made from corn, and vegetable oil is made from vegetables, then what is baby oil made from?


If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons?


Why do the Alphabet song and Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star have the same tune?


Stop singing and read on......


Do illiterate people get the full effect of Alphabet Soup?


Did you ever notice that when you blow in a dog's face, he gets mad at you, but when you take him on a car ride,
he sticks his head out the window?


Does pushing the elevator button more than once make it arrive faster?



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