What fall season is complete without apple picking? We went to Cook's Orchard and picked the last apples of the crop this season. Since we came at the end of the season, the worker there told us we'd find hardly any. We ended up filling 4 bags full of apples because I had daring kids who enjoyed climbing trees to pick the ones up high. The low apples had already been picked or had fallen on the ground. So we were forced to pick the ones at the tip tops of the trees. Cooper was climbing high, as well as Kaylee and Jaxton. Owen and Dawson enjoyed climbing too. Nathan was staying at Grandma's house, which he had actually been excited to skip out on the apple picking.
We brought all our apples home and got to work using our brand new apple corer/peeler/slicer machine. Jax, Cooper, Kaylee and Dawson and Nathan all got a kick out of using that machine to prepare the apples for the crock pot. We made 3 batches of applesauce so far, some we canned. We still have 2 full bags of apples to cook up yet. Yum Yum!
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