It's Autumn (Because Autumn is a Prettier Word Than Fall)

We have been doing autumn-y things like get our firewood stacked, culling (and making into apple butter) the tiny apples and canning. Opa came up this weekend
...and Brother resented his mother for intruding on his Opa time with a camera.

Miss Boo is learning to make faces.

Brother is learning about the joys of the bouncy seat while Mama makes apple butter and wishes her children to be out of scalding range...

3 quarts of apple butter and 2 half-pints of raspberry cordial (alcoholic!) so far...

The apple butter "cooking until there is a sheen on top and it mounds slightly on the spoon". (Canning recipies are always so specific they're confusing.)

The pre-buttered apples. We had a lot of culls this year.

Another Miss Boo face, this time because she's proud of her belly button.

I'm off to can the next batch.

Cheers!

Breanna