Walk Down Memory Lane

I found out a place to get free apples. Having grown up on an orchard, I lept at the chance to get free apples to turn into applesauce. The people adveretizing the free apples said they were perfect for applesauce--one catch. You have to go pick them yourself.

So I took a walk down memory lane. I went with a friend and we picked about five bushels of apples. I loved it! Even the part where the people told us, "we just shake the trees." I'm sure Grandma was rolling over in her grave, when she saw me shake the branches.

As we left the orchard, they told us they hadn't sprayed the trees. I looked at most of the apples and they looked good, so I thought, no big deal. Except, as I went and started cutting my apples at home--only about a third of the apples were usable. Most had little tiny worms/tracks of worms all throughout the apples.

Today I spent the morning cutting (and throwing out most of them), and saucing the apples. My hard work yielded 7 quarts of applesauce.

Worth the trip down memory lane? Yes. Worth it enough to try and go back, to get enough apples for my 52 quart desire for the year? No.

Rumor has it, that there are going to be free apples by the bushel load coming through the Entomology department. These apples are sprayed and the bugs are kept in check. Am I excited? YES!