These are a few of my herb plants.

They were started in yogurt cups on my grow cart in the late spring.

As were these yellow pear shaped tomatoes from saved seeds from last season.

I also saved marigold seeds about 6 years ago…who knew they’d still grow!

I have more flowers in pots and in the ground here and there but these I am most proud of since I propagated them myself.

I’m done…I can’t do it any more. We processed 3 grocery bags full of apples. My husband was very helpful on Sunday by peeling nearly 2 bags worth before noon. The afternoon was spent making sauce. And then again Monday and Tuesday. My collar bone/shoulder connection got very sore!! (Childhood injury, that gets aggravated from repetitive motion.)

I can’t even begin to guess how much berry applesauce is in my freezer! Gallons and gallons of it! It’s so awesome though…nearly free (cost of lemon juice, berries and electricity for the stove).

I honesty ran out of plastic containers to freeze the sauce in… If I make any more…which I highly doubt…I’ll have to can it. And THAT is SO much more work!

Now hopefully I can back to ART!!

We went to help the neighbor pick their apples today.

It took under 3 hours to pick 44 grocery bags of apples!! Crazy huh!?!?

Now comes the processing part. Washing, chopping, cooking, dehydrating, preserving, freezing… you get the picture. Yikes!

UPDATE: I was corrected by the neighbor…It was 48 bags of apples plus a bushel basket.

My 1st red pepper is nearly ready to pick! I’m shocked that it is getting as red as the ones I see in the grocery stores. For some odd reason I thought it would only get that sort of ruddy red color.