I made some kickass applesauce using gravenstein apples from my tree - Three big batches. I just add a little salt, some allspice and some cinnamon and the taste comes out perfect. I boiled the cut up apples with the skins on so I get the full goodness of the entire apple, core removed of course. I have this cone shaped apparatus with small holes that I use to squeeze the reduced apples through. One hundred percent organic and pure applesauce, like great-grandma used to make.
Weather is beautiful on the coast and I have been hiking almost every day. In fact it has been unusually warm and sunny.
Pic below is of a lone Sea Lion I surprise on a remote part of the Pacific Beach, accessible by a two mile hike only. The beast lumbered away into the surf barking like a banshee.
On another hike on a remote beach, I encountered this deer shown below. Its beach combing days are over. I actually see quite a few deer, or their tracks, near and on the beach often. Not sure why this one expired, no obvious wounds or bullet holes.
Salmon fishing in the rivers is slow to almost non-existent though hordes are trying near the mouths. No rain and the fishing will not be good until we get at least of week of soaking rains. Small rivers near here are so low no one is even bothering to drift them. Ocean and near shore fishing is going on and a few commercial and sport guys are out flailing and trolling.