Sunday was Apple Day

Many Sundays I start the day unsure of where the day will take me.  I eat breakfast, push through the last of last week's Wall Street Journals, piss around a bit.  Then something seizes me and I'm off on a project.  I had multiple options yesterday.  Finish painting the woodshed.  Move wood into the woodshed.  Caulk the shedbarn. Take out and re-place the window in the sliding shed door, caulk and re-paint it.  Reglaze windows on the house.  Start tightening up the house for winter.  But first, since it was cool, I put dough materials into the breadmaker and chose a recipe for apple breakfast cake.  While the dough percolated, I moved some wood into the woodshed and finished cutting the grass.


I went out to pick up fallen apples from the cooking apple tree, brought them in and peeled one and had a piece.  I don't remember ever tasting a better apple. A sweet, complex flavor with a teeny bit of tartness at the end.  I made the bread filling with the apples, some raisins, brown sugar, nutmeg and ginger (instead of the cardamom the recipe called for that I don't have).  It was heavenly.  And that's when yesterday's project seized me.

I picked (up) more apples and made an apple pie.  Then I picked more apples and made an apple-sausage-cheese pie on phyllo dough because I ran out of pie crusts.  Then I ran out of time.  Peeling and cutting away bad parts is pretty time consuming!  I'm really thankful for the cold, spitty day that was yesterday, because now I have enough food put away to last me the rest of the week.  I'll need it too - fire stuff will consume most weekday evenings this week, and all day Saturday. 

I went on my first call over the weekend!  A 2am EMS call where I sped down to the station, rode the ambulance, and then stood around in the background as about 5 people took care of the patient. A frequent flier who had stabbed herself on purpose while drunk.