Apple overload!

I am still here....trying to play catch-up from being gone last weekend......er, I guess, two weekends ago, and cleaning up after 7 inches of rain this past weekend. Gary did a great job of taking care of the menagerie while I was away. There was only one minor casualty, well, I would say it's minor, but Emma may disagree. It seems that, in the 'riding mower vs. Emma's Jolly ball' battle, Jolly ball was not victorious.

I am now paying for my weekend away. My apple trees have exploded all of the sudden, and I am up to my eyeballs in apples.
So I have been making apple pie.......
Caramel Apple Jam.

Apple pie filling
Applesauce.
Apple pie jam.
I have frozen apples, canned apples, cooked apples, raw apples...I feel like Forest Gump, but with apples instead of shrimp. The animals are even tired of the apple parts and peelings that I have been tossing to them.

Now the pears are looking like they will be ready before too long, although, Emma has already been helping pick those.

Other stuff that makes me busy...I am working on breeding arrangements for the sheep, I am only planning on breeding 5-6 ewes this year, since my space is limited, and I still have few sheep to sell.
I am also trying to get ready for a craft show that I am doing in Des Moines on the 26th, 27th and 28th of this month, this show is kind of the kick-off for the fall craft show season, and it is usually a good one for me. Then I have several other big shows in October and November, plus I have Farmers' Market until the end of October, just 'cause I really need more stuff to keep me busy.

Pictures just because.........
Blue Orpington pullet doing her Marilyn impression with the wind blowing up her bloomers.

Jasmine walking off into the sunset....okay, it was the sunrise, but that doesn't sound as romantic.

That's about it for now...the apples are calling.