Daily Musings on the Hill

Darling Hill is a quiet place with a narrow, welcoming lane. The view from the top is breathtaking and its vistas change many times throughout a day. I hope that you can visit often and enjoy it as much as my dear Husband, family and I do. God has allowed Syd and I to sojourn here until He leads us on to another place of service or until He takes us Home to Heaven. The little cabin He has provided sits alongside Darling Hill Road, nestled in, on a northwest corner.

Monday, September 30, 2013

Apples A'Plenty!

The apple trees are laden this year. As you can see, some of them are as large as store-bought. Ours are not treated and the trees really have not been sprayed or pruned at all. One of these years we plan on doing some severe pruning.

The apple to the left is one of the wild ones. I just set the store-bought one there to show the size.

After church some of our friends came up to get a bag-full for applesauce. We walked around picking from the various trees and comparing the sweetness (or tartness, of some). There are many varieties up here, but we don't really know one from the other.

Here are nine of the ten "R children"...they left one at church. Can you believe you could forget a kid at church? Kidding...he stayed to help with throwing wood the into church basement. See? They even left a place for him so we can 'photo shop' him in!

It's rare to get a picture of Josh and Nikki alone. I took the opportunity to snap this shot.

It was a perfect Autumn afternoon. The Bible teaching, sun, fall leaves, warm weather and good friends all made for a good end of a blessed Lord's day! Thanks for stopping by and hope you all have a good Autumn week.

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Mrs.TSeptember 30, 2013 at 12:01 PM
What a perfect fall day! I love the pictures and it is so nice to see one of just Josh and Nikki too. Apples are so wonderful! We have a wild apple tree and it, too, has some very good apples that get almost as big as store bought. They make great applesauce if I can get them before they fall to the ground where they are almost instantly chewed on by chipmunks, squirrels, yellow jackets and a chocolate Lab. This weekend I made an apple salad and a large pan of apple crisp for the potluck at church. Mm-mmm!

Several years ago we found some wild Concord grapes (as mentioned at left) and picked enough to make a grape pie. Was that ever good!

Nice to see you posting and I'm glad your mom is better!
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1HappyWifeOctober 1, 2013 at 8:58 PM
It was getting dark by the time we finished, maybe next week!
Silas was a good helper :)!!! Can't wait to see the photoshopped picture :). Great pics of the R family!
Hope you are having a great week. Any plans for the big 55 tomorrow :). Happy Birthday to Uncle Sunshine from all of us :).
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Aunt Jan's Wild Corner

This is just the kind of recipe that my Aunt Jan would have loved to share with you. I have no doubt that she made syrups from many edible flowers.

Violet Syrup

3 handful of violet heads (remove stems)

Boil 1 1/4 cup of water. Pour over the violet heads and let sit overnight or for up to 18 hours.

Drain the light blue water into a glass pyrex pot.

1 cup white sugar. Add to the violet water.

Bring the sugar water to a boil, stirring with a wooden spoon.

Slowly add a very little lemon juice (I do use reconstituted) but do it very slowly. The more you add, the PINKER it gets. Just a small amount will bring the violet purple hue. Too much will get "bubble gum" pink. (I did add a little too much this time).

Allow it to come to a light, rolling boil and allow to boil (stirring) for at least two minutes, three minutes is better.

Immediately pour into clean glass jars. Enjoy!

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