Beadwork Pause for Harvest frenzy

I'm working up a bunch of plums and apples I bought from a co-worker who has a little orchard in Mora, about 20 miles away. I've been happily pitting and halving the batch of prune plums I bought, as well as making some stewed plums and freezing a few batches (I had a batch drying on a cookie sheet on the porch, covered with a muslin cloth, and my dog at half of them!). Then there's the big box of apples to deal with. Yesterday I peeled and cooked up some nice rustic applesauce, and froze four quarts, and that's just about a third of the apples I bought, so I'll be working the rest up in the next week or so. It's back to work tomorrow and off to Socorro on Saturday to spend the afternoon with my son who turns 25 on Sunday. We're planning to go out to the Bosque del Apache and gawk at the birds, then share a pizza and dessert. There's nothing like fall in New Mexico! The smell of roasting chiles in the air, cool mornings and warm afternoons, it's the best time of year!