Being productive with produce

We took the plunge.  We bought ourselves an applesauce maker.  Or that's what we call it.  I'm sure it has a much more technical name...but applesauce is what it makes.

 So, you cook apples and put them in the white bowl-type part, push them down with the red thing and then crank the handle.  Applesauce comes out the big slide and all the peels, core and seeds go out that tube like thing in the back.  Wow, that was an articulate explanation wasn't it?  :-)

 The applesauce maker made quick work of filling up our sixteen 1 1/2 quart freezer containers with fresh applesauce.  We thought about ordering more containers, but then decided that 16 containers of applesauce is probably enough for us for one winter.  So, we used the rest of our apples up by dehydrating some and by slicing and freezing others for later use.  A few of them may have found there way into the compost....

My washer and dryer no longer have pears ripening on top of them.  I canned (with remarkable success and very, very little stress) 8 quarts and 1 pint of pears.  I would have had 9 quarts but one jar broke in the canner.  Now my dryer just has cantelopes and sweet potatoes on it....