The George Family Journal

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

New Photos

Two new photos of Alexander.  I think they may be the cutest to date, but I am a bit biased…

Monday, September 28, 2009

Applesauce and New Bike Video

Here’s a video of our first batch of apple sauce making, as well as Alexander’s new toy!

Chicken Coop

As fall/autumn approaches, work on the chicken coop has been somewhat dragged out. Yesterday I finally got it mostly leveled, enough that we said ‘Enough!’

What is left to do?

- Dig 1ft into the ground so we can bury the wire (stops the foxes digging underneath)
- Staple wire around base and bury it
- Screw the access ramp to the underside of the box
- Screw in the roosting poles
- Import food + water
- Show chickens new real estate ad for condo space and up-sell them to move from the old slum to the new mountain view condo! (Eggs required as down payment).

So nothing really big to do.

Saturday, September 26, 2009

Whose hubby is the best hubby in the world?

Ok, so I know the title of this post is mushy…but when your hubby does what mine did today, you’ve got to do something to show him he’s appreciated, right?

My parents brought down three bushels of apples for Stu to make some more applesauce with.  I headed down to Roanoke with my friend April, her daughter and Alexander in tow, and we when shopping for the day while Stu worked on the sauce.

He started at 7:00 this morning, finished at 5:00, and the final outcome looked something like this: 

I helped him load these containers up.

This was the sauce already done when I got home.

This is the sauce he had cooling to put in the rest of the containers.

In case you can’t count that high, we ended up with 44 more containers on top of the 17 he made the other weekend.  Eight gallons of applesauce!  I proceeded to eat about two gallons of it for dinner.  I hope we have enough to last through next weekend!

Oh, and because Stu is so wonderful, I stopped by our favorite donut shop, Blue Collar Joe’s, on the way home (it’s about an hour down to this donut shop, so we don’t do it too often), to get him a surprise thank you gift.  Feast your eyes on these beauties!

Sunday, September 13, 2009

Apple Sauce

Today I made apple sauce. We had a bushel of “Ginger Gold” apples, and I sauced the lot of them. 17 containers, so we are good for at least 2 to 3 months on apple sauce.

If you ask google how many apples in a bushel, this is what it says;

One bushel of apples weighs about 42 lbs. One pound of apples generally consists of 4 small apples or 3 medium or 2 large apples.

so think 100-120 odd apples.

The photos show but a fraction of the action

Saturday, September 12, 2009

Two Videos

The two new George Family past-times.

Monday, September 07, 2009

Family Photos

Wow!  How lucky are you guys to get three posts in one day?

Over the holiday weekend, my B-I-L took some updated family photos and I thought I’d share some.

Hope you enjoy!

Dinner

Here is a movie we took when we had Zach and April over with their daughter, Adi

Suzuki Gladius

Bought a motorcycle on the weekend, a Suzuki Gladius. It a naked standard, 650 90o v-twin engine