How Time Flies!!

Remember the soft, warm, spring breezes and opening your windows to let the spring breezes waft in?

Remember seeing your first robin this spring?

Remember seeing your tulips struggling to pop out of the frozen ground?

Remember the bright green leaves budding out of the trees?

Remember these apple blossoms just flowering on the branches?:

And the warm sunshine opening up all the blossoms, spreading sweet apple blossom smell all over the yard?:

Before I knew it, the blossoms shriveled up and there were the little tiny, fuzzy apples growing in their place:

And the apples grew bigger and bigger....

and

got their late summer blush on them!:

And before we knew it we were hearing "THUD" on the ground every once in a while:

And then all the THUD's added up.....

and

the damn things were ALL OVER MY YARD and SIDEWALKS!~.....

I got revenge.

I gathered them all up.

I peeled them.

I added cinnamon, sugar and thickeners.

Into THIS:


Oh, Yeah.

And I stuck the little buggers in the oven...

for about an hour.

And I got THIS:

The beginning of another great season===

apple pie season!


Our apples are not hybrid.
They are tart, like old farm orchard apples.
The kind where you bite into them and all of your taste buds come alive
and make your mouth water.
Best of all?
They are FREE.
And they keep us in apple pies until almost Thanksgiving.
(I have a lot of apple trees!)


The only thing saving me, is that I have to go outside almost every day and gather them up from the ground and bag them up so they don't spoil on the ground.


So...how many calories do you think that takes versus eating one teeny, tiny piece of apple pie???

Never mind...

I am in denial.

Don't tell me.......!!!