The Business of Fall ...

September 22, 2015

More tomatoes to be processed ...

today I decided to make tomato sauce ...

blanching them and chopping them up in the food processor ...

cooking it until it was a thick sauce ...

I love these little Tupperware containers ... which are usually used to make hamburger patties ...

to pre freeze the produce before putting them in the vacuum sealer bags ...

Once again I received some garden goodies from our neighbour ...

some delicious celery and bok choy ...

The celery was prepared ... the stalks going into the refrigerator ...

the leaves placed in the dehydrator for a few hours ...

then stored into some mason jars ...

 

September 23, 2015

The first day of Autumn ... nothing better than processing an abundance of apples ...

making them into applesauce ...

There was a pleasant aroma in the kitchen ...

Once again using the little containers ... which are the perfect size for a cup proportion...

placed them in the freezer until they were firm enough to be placed ...

in the vacuum Food Saver Bags ...

It was a warm afternoon ...

so we decided to close down the pool for the season ...

The hot tub needed to be drained and refilled as well ...

Instead of draining part of the pool water out onto the grass ...

I suggested to Mike to fill the hot tub with the pool water ...

which would be better than filling it with the water from the well ...

As you can see by the thermometer ... it was time ...

just a little too chilly to go swimming now ...

The hot tub was cleaned and filled with the pool water ...

the rest of the pool water was drained out on the lawn ...

taking it down just below the outlet ...

We finished with covering the pool with a winter pool cover ...

cleaned the sand filter ... drained all the lines ...

and put the solar panels away ...

This job was done and ready for next year ... !!!