Preserving the Apple

It is finished!

(until we get another few buckets more from a friend)

My daughter-in-love and stepmom helped me in the making

of apple sauce and apple juice this week.

We counted 37 quarts of golden apple sauce and apple butter combined

and 26 quarts of beautiful crimson crab apple juice

which we will use to make jellies later.

My long two-pointed ladder's sticking through a tree

Toward heaven still.

And there's a barrel that I didn't fill

Beside it, and there may be two or three

Apples I didn't pick upon some bough.

But I am done with apple-picking now.

~Robert Frost from "After Apple Picking"