Gallons of Applesauce

jars of home canned apple sauce

Golden applesauce, a summer day stored up for winter. (photo: Michelle Zeiger)

Nature has blessed the Chilkat Valley with abundance this year.  The sockeye fish run was better than expected, the blueberries were dripping off the bushes, the overloaded cherry trees had to be picked completely to keep the bears from destroying them, and the apple trees are now creating buckets full of applesauce on the owners’ yards.

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“Dream Time” Fulfilled

Back in January, I wrote about “Dream Time,” when we made plans for the more active time of the year. We progressed significantly in making some of the dreams a reality, particularly getting the old wood stove moved to the beach.

beach stove

The "new" beach woodstove, for heating laundry water, cooking crab, and many other useful purposes (Photo: Mark Zeiger).

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