More apples are now sauce and more are sliced and drying. I made a whole crock pot full of soup-lots of veggies and some deer meat. Some of the soup will be frozen, as well as the apple sauce. I used some apple sauce in an apple coffee cake recipe- left out 1/2 the sugar and used whole wheat flour so it's more of a "bread".

I'm trying to use all the odd size wood, sort of rotten or bug eaten bits and dimensional lumber scraps first for heating during this mildly cold weather. Today I had a fire till maybe noon and then never fed it anymore-the house stayed comfortable the rest of the day (the cooking helped I guess).