RSKY
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Today I started on my eighth bushel of apples for canned slices, applesauce, and mostly for drying. Yep, one bushel cored, sliced, and canned. One and a half bushel cooked into applesauce and canned in pint jars. Six bushels peeled, cored, and dried on a dehydrator. Have given them away to everybody in the family and neighborhood. I already had a corer that split the apples into eight sections. And last year I bought another that split into twelve sections. This year I found one on Amazon that split each apple into SIXTEEN sections. Perfect for drying. So I started peeling apples with one of the peelers like you find at Walmart except this was a Pampered Chef one my wife bought this spring. Very sharp. So late one Monday night I am peeling apples, takes between 20 and 24 to fill dehydrator, and I peeled back a portion of my left index finger. It hurt, lots of nerve endings there, and it bled, and it bled. Wife thought I needed stitches, LOL. So I finally got it to stop bleeding. Applied two bandaids. And finished peeling, coring, and loading apples. Took three times as long but I got it done. Loaded another load Tuesday about noon. Took them off Tuesday about midnight and started peeling the next batch. Bandaid got in the way so I took it off. About thirty minutes after midnight I was working on the last apple, had it ready to core, and I saw one little brown spot on it. So I peeled the brown spot off and hit the same spot on the left index finger that I had cut two days before. THAT HURT!! Cut the same place but deeper and wider. Got the bleeding stopped. Wife (woke up by loud cussing) put a large bandaid on it. And by about 1AM in the morning I had ordered a pair of Kevlar cut proof gloves from Amazon. Got the wife a pair too. I had about a half dozen apples remaining from that bushel so wife made an apple pie. Took two weeks for the finger to heal enough that I bought two more bushels to dry. Got to stay busy!
Not one of my finer moments.
RSKY
Not one of my finer moments.
RSKY