Heading out early to drive my daughter to work, we found this…

A bit of a surprise.  We must have had some wind last night, for both of them to be open.  One of the doors is kept closed from the inside by a piece of wood that pivots, and uses the upper door frame to hold the door closed.  It isn’t used as often, so it’s a lot stiffer than the two on the other door (one to close it from the outside, the other to close it from the inside), which are much looser.

Sadly, my first thought was not that it was opened by the wind, but that someone had gone in.  Nothing inside seems to have changed, that I can tell, so it must have been the wind.

Early this afternoon, I got a phone call from my mom and ended up going over to visit her.

She had apples for me.

Someone had left several boxes of apples at the senior’s centre she lives in (things like that happen fairly regularly, with different kinds of produce), so she took some home.  She’d already cooked down a whole bunch into apple sauce and realized she had taken more than she could use for herself.  So she wanted me to take them.

Now I have to figure out what to do with them, myself. :-D

I’m thinking of making jelly.  I’ve never made jelly before.

I don’t actually like jelly, but the rest of the family enjoys jams and jellies. :-)

I could also break out the juicer.

Nah.  It’s a pain in the butt to clean.  I’ll leave that for when we start harvesting our own apples.

It would probably be easier to make apple butter with them.

Time to look through my recipes. :-D

Whatever I do with them, it will wait until tomorrow at the earliest, since I will be finishing off the chokecherry vinegar I started last night.

The Re-Farmer