1994-Isabelle Parker propped her feet on an emptied apple crate, balanced a turkey roaster across her lap and sliced away at another bunch of apples.
"See those boxes that don't have the (meat wrapping) paper on them," Parker said. She pointing with her par- ing knife to the better part of 170 bushels of red cooking apples. "Those all have to be done before we go home."
"Oh, it's fun. I get to sit here with friends and talk," the Middlefield volunteer said, an eye twinkle lighting up the steady stream of chuckles as she kibitzed and sliced.
She and about 50 other volunteers spent Wednesday peeling, coring and slicing the apples in preparation for the 46th annual Apple Butter Festival at Century Village in Burton this weekend.