Foiled Again

Mike happened to find a clutch of apples still hanging on the one tree in the orchard that still had leaves on it. The tree was old when we purchased the place more than 40 years ago, it has the very early transparent apples on the main trunk and two varieties of winter apples on grafts, filling out the other 2/3rds of the tree.

We think the one winter apple is the Jonathan variety with a mostly red color skin, while the other variety of late fruit is solid green, lighter in color than a Granny Smith. The red winter apples that were still on the tree had been hidden by the last of the leaves and when they finally gave way, Mike used a pole basket to harvest the apples before the birds swooped in to finish them off.

Mike has set the apples in a bucket for me to take to the barn on my next trip out. Instead I picked out an apple each time I walked to the barn for chores and ate it for myself. morning and night for the last three days I had enjoyed the very last of the apple crop. Some were very tiny and not fully developed, a couple had bird pecks already, but I was enjoying the fruit. I saved the biggest one of the bunch for last.

But when I rounded the corner on that last day, I found that I had been beaten to my own game by Jackson the farm dog. He had his head plunged deep into the bucket and was eating the last apple while still hidden from his brother! He did not want to be foiled as he was spoiling my plans.

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