Harvest

Salmon Arm being fruit growing country, Leo's niece has a plum tree in her yard overflowing with fruit this year, and we were gifted with 3 boxes of delicious plums.  Also Leo's cousin Eric has an apple tree in his yard in Williams Lake, also overflowing with tiny apples.

So I have been occupied this week with freezing, stewing, baking and dehydrating.

Dried Apples

I have my own dehydrator, but had to call in the big guns for all the fruit.  A friend lent me his high-powered, 8 tray dehydrator for the week.  

Dried Prunes

And today I'm using my own dehydrater to experiment with a small quantity of less than perfect pears. I 

I also baked some Zwetschgenkuchen, a German tradition in the fall, and the best cake ever, for tonight's potluck, where we will welcome the refugee family from Liberia we've been working to bring to Canada since January.