A rainy apple peeling day
By Joanie
@Freelanzer (10782)
Canada
August 21, 2017 11:29pm CST
It was all rain and clouds today so I didn't even get a glimpse of a partial eclipse in my part off the world. However, It was a great opportunity to stay indoors and peel and process all the apples I have been picking daily. Peeling, slicing, blanching, freezing, applesauce and apple jelly making. The smell of apples is all over the house. Soon they will be all gone but I will have apples in some form or the other for a year.
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Perhaps my children could bring the apples to my grave for me when the trees began to have fruit?)@Freelanzer (10782)
• Canada
22 Aug 17
I have two apple trees - planted one and the other was already here when we moved in many years ago.
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@YrNemo (20254)
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22 Aug 17
@Freelanzer I can deal with two I guess. Your apples are big. Some of my relatives' apples are very small, don't know why (they planted from seeds of a giant fruit!).
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@Freelanzer (10782)
• Canada
24 Aug 17
@YrNemo The one apple tree I was purchased when it was a skinny shrub and I guess the other one was too. But the longer they are around the bigger the fruits get
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@Courtlynn (67089)
• United States
22 Aug 17
I wish the store still had my apples in season. Apples with peanut butter sound good to me right now.
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@Freelanzer (10782)
• Canada
22 Aug 17
Apple and peanut butter is always a good choice.
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@Shellyann36 (11383)
• United States
24 Aug 17
Sorry you missed the eclipse. We watched it on TV. Those apples sound delicious. I love the smell of cooking apples.
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@Shellyann36 (11383)
• United States
25 Aug 17
@Freelanzer Oh and don't forget the cinnamon smell as well. I am making myself hungry thinking about it. I might go see if we have any apple butter for some toast. 
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@Freelanzer (10782)
• Canada
24 Aug 17
Apples do have a feel good aroma - makes everything better.
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@Freelanzer (10782)
• Canada
26 Aug 17
@Shellyann36 Apple and cinnamon, can't have one without the other
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@changjiangzhibin89 (17239)
• China
22 Aug 17
I have never known that apples can be processed in so many ways.Where I live isn't the apple growing area. I just eat an apple with peel on each day .It is said that its peel has lots of nutrients.
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@changjiangzhibin89 (17239)
• China
23 Aug 17
@Freelanzer I envy you,you have your own apple trees.Is it a bumper year of apple this year?
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@Freelanzer (10782)
• Canada
24 Aug 17
@changjiangzhibin89 Yes it is a bumper year for apples. I am picking a bucket a day from just one tree.
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@moffittjc (128824)
• Gainesville, Florida
27 Aug 17
Last winter, I came across a recipe for making homemade apple sauce in the crock pot. I spent hours peeling apples, but the smell of apples and cinnamon wafting throughout the house was just amazing and worth all the work I put into making the applesauce.
Oh, and that homemade apple sauce turned out delicious!
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@Freelanzer (10782)
• Canada
27 Aug 17
Time to make some more as I am sure its probably all gone
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@moffittjc (128824)
• Gainesville, Florida
27 Aug 17
@Freelanzer Haha, yeah, but I want to wait until late in the Fall. It just seems like that's the right time to make it! In the meantime, I have an apple cinnamon Yankee candle that I can light to tease me with that heavenly aroma!
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@Freelanzer (10782)
• Canada
24 Aug 17
@poehere Oh I am so jealous of people who can eat all they want and never put on a pound 
@poehere (15123)
• French Polynesia
23 Aug 17
@Freelanzer He can sit down and eat almost the entire pie in one sitting. He will eat all the ice cream too. He isn't even fat at all. He seems to never gain weight no mater how much he eats.
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@Freelanzer (10782)
• Canada
22 Aug 17
Now I just have to get rid of all the spilled apple juice on my clothes and body
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@silvermist (19701)
• India
22 Aug 17
Where we are we were unable to see the eclipse.But I did see it taking place on TV.So you finished the job of preserving the apples.
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@Freelanzer (10782)
• Canada
22 Aug 17
Finished for now but there are more apples on the tree so more to do.
@Freelanzer (10782)
• Canada
27 Aug 17
Yes it is a great smell to have around, very refreshing
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@andriaperry (118793)
• Anniston, Alabama
22 Aug 17
Love it! I still have apple products from last year. We had a bad year for fruits.
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@Freelanzer (10782)
• Canada
22 Aug 17
It was a bad year for the plums but the cherries and apples did really well this year
@Edsamacos (557)
• Philippines
22 Aug 17
At least you have apples to pick.
I did not see the eclipse either
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@jaideemai (351)
• Thailand
22 Aug 17
Sounds like hard, but rewarding work! Do you ever make apple butter?
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@Freelanzer (10782)
• Canada
22 Aug 17
No I never made apple butter just pies, jelly, jam and applesauce and also dried apples
