One of the best smells of the year, apple pie. Or apple butter, apple sauce, apple crisp, apple cider, apple anything really. Thanks to the wonderful folks who bring their apples up from Colorado, we have apple EVERYTHING canned! I think the whole neighborhood has been smelling them. When you can enough of anything for it to be enough for two families, one of which has five kids, it takes a lot of food. And when there is that much to be done, even the BBQ gets used to cook apples. This results in random neighbors stopping in to check out where that smell is coming from and see if there are leftovers. At least we aren't having people call the fire department...

Credit for such flattering photos needs to be given to DezerRey's husband Kent, who seems to have a knack for catching us at our best.....