Preserving the Harvest

Today at the Farmer's market I set myself up for another week-end of WORK! I bought a large box (probably a little over 1/2 bushel) of firm little red apples to make more apple butter (we ate a pint this week!!) and 1/2 bushel of unshelled purple-hulled peas. I processed the peas today.

Here they are at 11 AM, in the sack from the farmer.

                                       Shelling 

peas is the perfect game-on-the-

radio, sunny sun-porch-afternoon

 kind of activity.Blogger seems to be malfunctioning, so I'll post the "during" and "after" pics tomorrow.