My daughter loves apples! She’ll eat the entire thing, stem and all!
Every fall she is my external alarm clock for when it is time to harvest them for our annual bakeathon. We always pick apples from this one particular tree in our neighborhood; we’ve been plucking the fruit from this tree for years! Recently, we were casually walking by the house with the great tree, and she urgently informed me that we had to collect the apples. It was late, and we were a block away from wrapping up an extra long walk on that particularly warm fall evening. I was ready to be home for the night. But, her persistence paid off and we were filling a plastic grocery bag, offered up by the tree’s owner, and a good thing too! By the end of that week we rolled out the wagon, loaded with 5 gallon pails and showed up for the grand finale of just six more apples. Apples the naked eye could only see from the road if you contorted your head like a pigeon. Heading home with our empty buckets felt a little defeating, but we still had a full bag to process from the other night. That day something really wonderful happened; we made all the things we’d normally make in mini-portions! We used muffin tins to make beautiful mini pies and spread our apples farther. We still have processed apple slices left! My take away is that we can do so much with less, and the management of less means we can do more things with our energy and time instead. With the right attitude we can produce abundantly with what we receive, that is why life is kind of like a bushel of apples, since you may arrive with bags to fill or only a few when you get where you are going. I hope you are enjoying the fall today and making the most of the fruit of your day! So much love! – Amanda
4 Feet on the Road 