Misc Things

Another one of those posts where I'm going to lump a bunch of things in to one post. Just way to much going on in our lives i tell you! I have so many ideas of what to blog about in the media, like POLITICS but just don't have the time. Although i must say, I just read another blog swarming with Obama supporters thinking the Republicans are to blame for the current banking status. I'd like to remind them who we inherited this from, AND that do nothing Congress we have with the majority being Democrat. How can we get anything done when we absolutely can NOT work together. Lets just get something worked out please! Of course I'm not sure what the solution is and I'm thinking DOC will have some suggestions on that. But why are the McCain/Palin supporters so silent when it comes to the public support Obama supporters offer? Has anyone read the Left Behind series? Does any of this remind you of that??
OK I'll stop.......

So us, I have been a canning fool. Here's what it's been looking like here:

First the coveted apple tree:
Me picking the apples. Good thing my mom doesn't read this, she'd freak out seeing this.
I had this long rod thing that i shook the branches with to make the apples fall. They were everywhere and not very easy to get to. I have SO many scratches everywhere. I tried to get C'man to help but that didn't last to long. It was much easier for him to crawl in there then me:
Miss A isn't to much help. She'd rather sit in the van and watch DVD's. But they both like to help daddy in the tractor.
This really doesn't even show how many apples. There was 8 bags chucked full!

Now the canning part. We made Applesauce. It worked out great b/c C'man liked to do this part:


I HATE running the apples thru the food mill. What a process. I had DH doing it last night. But here's the applesauce ready to be canned. I've done 3 pots of it so far:
I've also canned peaches, peach jam, pears and apple pie filling. Of which i made an apple pie last night, WITH a store bought crust. It was AWESOME! My hands are completely cut up and I'm really sick of apples, BUT i think I'm going to have to do some more apple pie filling!!

Other things, oh my van that i said had a little accident. Here it is:
My dad backed in to it! I'll say no more.

Friday night was our schools Home Coming. The kids love parades so we like to hit this one. Always LOTS of candy that i end up tossing BACK to the kids on the floats:) C'man loved it as you can see

Miss A preferred to stand behind Daddy's chair.

The middle of the month we made it to the Clay County Fair. I guess it's the largest county fair in the US!! It was kids day so they got to meet Clifford. There was a story too. They loved the story but not to sure of Clifford.
For me besides the food, the highlight was these geese. It's Santa with his 12 geese AND each one of them has some theme. See the baby on the back? one has a flask tied around it, another a binky, just HILARIOUS! I have a video I'll try and download. But what they did is they drank soda from a liter bottle! Each kid got to let them drink from it. It really was comical!

OK i have to wrap up this post. I have a purse party tonight and I'm excited about it. It's for one of my new friends i met thru MOPS. I'm looking forward to hanging out with friends and eating! I did have a purse party last Tuesday that went really well! I'll have a craft fair this weekend too. Business is picking up. As always, let me know if you are looking for a new purse or wallet. 20% discount if you mention your a blog reader:)