Apples & House Update

Kels and I went with a few friends from my department (Logan, Anna, and Gareth) to Saratoga Apple last weekend to pick apples.  We got two bushels there, plus another half bushel or so that I picked with Jess the week before at Bowman Orchards.  We have been making applesauce ever since.  We are both so busy that we can only do about a half bushel at a time (which is one 20 quart stock pot full of apples, which cooks down to about 8 quarts of sauce).  We posted a bunch of pictures of this process if you are interested.

We’ve been blasting away on the house, and have been able to make some degree of progress.  The bedroom is nearly complete, and we are hoping to have the section of the upstairs hallway where the bookshelves will go done by the end of the weekend.  If we can manage to get our seven bookshelves and twenty boxes of books into that hallway, it will give us a lot of room for maneuvering.

Our bed arrived today, which was a housewarming gift from my parents.  It is awesome.  However, we need a box spring for it to work properly, and the box spring we had delivered won’t fit up the stairs.  We have a split box on order, but it won’t get here for another two weeks or so.  Hopefully by that time we will be done with our bedroom renovations.

In other news, Kelsey has been busy with transitioning over to surveying full time.  Her training is winding down, so she will hopefully be able to be working somewhat of a normal schedule again soon.  I have been busy with classes, IT work, preparing a paper and presentation for the 4S conference in DC at the end of the month, and working on two papers for publication with one of my professors.  We’ve just been incredibly busy.  On the plus side, we have been unpacking a lot of our wedding gifts that we didn’t have space for in the last apartment.  Over that period of time we’ve forgotten a lot of what we received, so we get that Christmas morning feeling all over again.