An Apple a Day....

or maybe fifty a day is what you'd need to eat to finish off this load.
A group of five of us got together yesterday to do applesauce. Twelve hours and 900 lbs of apples later, we had over 200 quarts of applesauce. We also saved some of the applesauce to make fruit leather with.
We had 3 camp stoves running plus the stove in the house. It was quite the process. I was completely wiped out by by the time I went home, around 9:00, but it didn't end there. I was canning applesauce in my dreams most of the night.
We were all grateful to Ivie (who bought all the apples) for volunteering her home for complete and utter destruction. There were, at times, up to 15 kids running loose, and every time the rest of us looked around at the mess, we were silently giving thanks that it wasn't one of our homes. That's when I decided there are advantages to having a small home. Nobody wants to cram 5 women and 15 kids into my home for a canning project. We're heading back there today to try and repair some of the damage.
Overall, it really was fun. It was nice enough to do most of the work outside and it was nice to have the company while working. And of course, it was nice to have the mess somewhere else (sorry Ivie).