Busy, Busy, Busy

My goodness gracious.....It's been a few months since I've written a post. I've been super busy, I did some traveling to visit with a couple of the grandbabies who live in Northwest Alabama. 

One of my grandsons came home from serving in the Army after being stationed in Kuwait. It's truly a Blessing to have him back home safe and sound. 

My son (39) went through some health issues and for a while we thought that we might loose him when he went into heart failure. His heart was only working at 20% and he would possibly have to be put on a heart transplant list. He had surgery and had a defibrillator installed to shock his heart if it went into Afib again. But because of our Awesome God that we serve, he's still with us and did not have to get on a transplant list. (Thank You Jesus) 

My two Elgin's  <3
When I came back from visiting with my youngest daughter and grandbabies I brought home a few pecks of fresh picked apples to dehydrate. 

I knew that I had a few dehydrators, but couldn't find them. (They are somewhere in a box in my shed) So, off to Wal-Mart I went and picked up a new one and got started slicing and dehydrating my apples. I really should have bought 3 dehydrators at least. LOL

First thing I did was wash 

and slice the apples really thin. 

After that I layered them in my dehydrator 

and turned it on and within about 4 hours I had the crunchiest, most delicious healthy snack. 

when I got done with the apples, I started with strawberries. 

I sliced the strawberries by hand, which I didn't mind at all. I love doing things in my kitchen. 

Then they got layered on the trays and plugged the dehydrator in and within a few hours I had another great
fresh snack. 

Now, I was on a role, I then did a crate of peaches, 

Even a bag of fresh kale that I picked up at a farmer's market that I went to while visiting my daughter.

The first thing I did with the Kale was give it a good washing, then peeled the hard cord stem that runs through the middle.

Then I added some seasonings and a bit of olive oil and mixed it up so that the kale was coated really good. 

the kale then got layered on the trays and

the dehydrator got plugged in once again. 

As you can see once the kale was dehydrated that I added a bit to much olive oil. I'll know better next time. 😄

I put them in containers and now I've got a few healthy snacks to munch on. 

I even had enough apples to make some apple butter and apple pie filling. I think I'll save those for my next post. 

Remember Ladies......You are loved by a Wonderful and Loving Father. Don't forget to pray Blessings on your husband, you're marriage and your children. Till next time......