Monday – 26-09-2016 – Hurray for Johnny Appleseed Day!

Good afternoon all. I am back from a painful gym session learning to balance on one leg and stretching hamstrings and quads. Feeling very sore as the wet weather is affecting me too.
JJ I was pretty sure you would remember the Johnny Appleseed Grace.
Yes a cat’s tummy is a pretty accurate time keeper, as I have found.
KJ check this out

Step away from the knife ! Put it down and step away there missy. 😯 🙂
I had a feeling you would like that pic.

KZ I just listened to the ‘tuppence’ song. Ear worm now. It is lovely and I love how you are teaching Avery music appreciation while feeding the birds.
AV, thank goodness the water snafu has been sorted. OMG ! I am laughing like crazy at the bubble wrap incident. Caddy is one smart girl and has problem solving all sorted. Extend claw and swipe – woohoo crunchies.
I am sure she will get the hang of the cat door.
Hi ECB and JK.
Mmmmmmm cupcakes.
KJ that red inside apple sounds interesting, as befits it’s name. I have an apple called ‘Lemonade’ at the moment, quite tasty and it is more elongated than round with a pale yellowy green skin much like a very ripe Granny Smith. Oh the Surprize comes from Tillington Hereford in the UK. I just Google map the area and there are plenty of apple orchards. I believe it is a cider making area, my forefathers used to make cider there in the 1800’s.
Hi PG, glad the concert was so great.
Ohhhhh KZ what a great idea with the Red Hots. I used to love them and our dog did too. I can’t eat them now sadly but if I find some I will have to try your idea for them in applesauce.
Deb ! ! Hi, great to see you here. I totally understand about ‘one of those months’ or longer. Good to hear outdoor kit is getting braver.
AV, Caddy is gorgeous and she chats with A’tuin too? What a gal.
KJ, fantastic slippers but a bit on the expensive side. I would wear them outside and ruin them.
LOL 😆 KM sneaking in and making PG’s pic visible. I must see if I can do that in future for you PG if that’s ok with all concerned.
KJ, love the apples education today. Names I have never heard of.

MS, thanks for the Johnny Appleseed video!! No, I can’t believe that I’ve never heard that song…weird!! Yes, the Tuppence song gives me an earworm, but a good one for once! I did the same thing….went to you tube and watched the video of it from Mary Poppins, just to hear the whole thing and see the old lady with her pigeons.
JJ, I have to do the buckets of water trick when the power goes out too. But trouble is, where to get water? I try and fill things up with water to be able to wash my face or brush my teeth if I think the power might go. We do have a generator that Mr. KZ hooks to the power take off on a tractor. It’s so loud, but when you need to flush well…… 😆

I do miss feeding lambs and getting them stronger enough to join the flock or be mothered on to a ewe who has lost her lamb. Our cat on the farm didn’t think much of the sheep, she would sit on a fence post and swipe at them as they walked past under her.
I see the ‘Presidential Debate’ is on now.

Go Caddy, you showed Daddy !
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What has been deliberately surpassed by temperance types is that the apples old John Chapman planted were most of all for cider, a very popular bevvie in many parts of North America, inherited from Britain and France (mostly Normandy and Brittany, and the west of England). Farmers have made it here in Québec for centuries – for a while it was illegal to sell it (though Prohibition made very little inroads whatsoever in largely Catholic Quebec) but it is legal now, and there is some very good cider.

YB, Apple Cider comes in alcoholic and non-alcoholic. In the US alcoholic is referred to as Hard Cider. Hard Cider is growing in popularity right now particularly as a micro-brew in the area of the Blue Ridge Mtns. I know that Hard Cider is also popular in England and Ireland.

I know, TrufflesMom. But? Didn’t know about the Blue Ridge Mts. thing and being so forcibly isolated I’d forgotten about Hard Cider and the only thing that came to mind was AppleJack which? Isn’t that hard cider?