It’s 59 degrees with a light rain today. I love days like this. I have a Crockpot and an Instant Pot (on the slow cooker setting) full of apple butter cooking. The house smells wonderful! There are two more large pots on the stove with apples cooking to make more apple butter. As you know, you start out with a large pot of sliced apples and they cook down…way down. As the apple butter cooks, it will simmer down to a spicy goodness. I still have to prepare the jars, fill them and process them. A lot of time and work, but the apple butter will taste so good on hot biscuits this winter!
Doug has spent many hours working outside this summer. As a Master Gardener, he loves it. We have 1.25 acres and he has made the most of every square inch. The plants and flowers have been beautiful this summer. This was the second year for our perennial garden which we added to this year. Next year should be even better. For now, everything is winding down. Thanks to the rain, the grass is still green but that will turn soon enough. Even the humming birds seem to have left already. Since the bees are enjoying the sweet nectar, I’m not complaining.
Look closely. The feeder is covered with bees!
The roses are beautiful and having one last hurrah with loads of blooms.
Their leaves bear the result of the invasion, again this year, of Japanese beetles!
