Perks of the Job....

Gotta be some right?  Spread an orchard with lime the other day and asked the owner if I could steal some apples off his trees, he said go for it, the contract overseas was filled and they weren't allowed to sell them locally due to copyright of the fruit so extras and those not up to overseas standard are left to rot on the trees or feed the birds!  So with an apple junky horse in mind (and the others and the pig and the kid) I grabbed some and with permission went back on the weekend for some more!  So the dehyrdator is running (yes, I bought it so apple junky Smokey could have apples in the off season LMAO) and I have so many apples I thought I'd juice some too as the kid is a juice junky and I make him water that store bought sickly sweet crap down.  So I've just juiced about 20kg of apples to get 10 litres of juice, 6 in the freezer and 4 in the fridge and the kid admits it tastes so much better than the crap from the supermarket.

I feel content with an abundance of food at my place, don't know why, we never were lacking for food as a kid, but my freezer and pantry and spare cupboards are always stuffed to capacity and now the animals have plenty too :) 

Perks for the boy too, he needed another part time job to get some money after he chucked his paper run in end of last year, and the butcher shop hasn't got space for him right now, so he has scored a job washing down our mini spreader trucks if they need it on the weekend, and since he is cheaper than me and does a MUCH better job than I do I anticipate I can talk the boss into giving him more than they had originally thought.  That job has meant he can replace his laptop that he not only broke but broke only half an hour after windows disappeared off it (how many times do you have to tell a child that viruses are real?!) so we went computer shopping for him after we went apple picking yesterday and he is now paying that off to me (it was an interest free deal, only way I ever pay anything off!) 

A nice productive weekend without doing too much at all LOL.

And last but not least, I would be mentioning how it's now still lightish at 5.45pm instead of 5.30pm but there are no horsey chicks around to appreciate it *sigh*  Nearly half way thru winter already!!!  WOOHOO!!!!