opening day – tis the season!
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“if you never tasted a bad apple, you would not appreciate a good apple.
you have to experience life to understand life.”
-leon brown
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Aug23
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I didn't have my glasses on.... 
I’m not ready for apples and apple season yet. 🙂
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it’s here in spite of us – and fall is my fav season)
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Early fall is usually beautiful!
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it so is –
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I think I can smell the apple pies baking already. Won’t be long. Loved the quote you chose, Beth!
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I’m a huge fan of apple pies – thanks!
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Yes, if life gives you apples, make apple cider! And a very good quote! Cheers and a lovely day to you!
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yes! and thanks –
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You’re very welcome Beth!
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Great quote and hooray for fresh apple pickings …. what a great list of sorts I’ve never heard of.
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I love the variety and some I’ve not yet tried –
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Yeah for apples Beth, my fav’ is a Royal Gala ..
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so many, so good
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I’m an apple a day guy …
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get busy tasting them –
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You won’t appreciate an Apple until you start using it- I mean Apple iphone!
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oh, so true!
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I never knew that the picking was an exact science.
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these are the dates when each type is usually at it’s ripest and best to pick and eat
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Cool.
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That is the truth! If life was always a vacation you wouldn’t know the joy of a vacation.
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that’s right
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Hmm it might be time to work out an apple bounce recipe. A quart of fruit, a fifth of your favorite three finger sauce, and a pound of sweetener aka sugar. Mix and let it age in a cool dark spot with the lid just loose enough to let it breath. No explosive decompression as it ferments please.
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excellent
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For some reason, we have tasted a lot of bad apples this summer season where I live, Beth. And still I hope each lunch time when I pull the supermarket-bought apple from my lunch bag. I hope the local crop is tasty this fall!
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fall apples are usually much better –
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This is so true, Beth.
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❤
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The one thing I miss about teaching: apples.
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they are out there waiting for you –
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I’m ready for apple cider and apple butter! I’d be making apple sauce if I had room to store it! And I think it’s so cool that you are informed of the harvest days for each kind of apple so that you can make certain to get the exact type you want. By the way, great quote!
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I don’t always get to try them all, but I at least know when to keep an eye out for them – thanks!
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Hmmm…I’ve never eaten a bad apple.
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well..
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Braeburn apples were a big favourite of mine at one time. But then apples (and pineapples) started to give me indigestion in my late 40s, so I stopped eating them.
Best wishes, Pete.
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oh, no –
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That is such a fitting quote for life.
I love apple season here in Minnesota. Orchards make a visit an experience now rather than simply a place to purchase a bag of apples. I love that, especially for families.
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yes, me too –
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I didn’t realize there were so many different kinds. I’ve never heard of some of these. I grew up thinking Red Delicious was the only kind, but I’ve learned a lot since then.
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absolutely the same here )
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True. Apple season here very soon. Been too long.
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Roll on October 24th. Bad apples are unappeeling give me the pip!
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I’m a two apples a day man !
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Great quote! I have such fond memories of apples. Thanks for the nudge.
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I think tasting a bad apple might keep me away from trying another! Plus, it’s not of my favorite fruits to start with… 🙂
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my favs are berries and stone fruits, but I do love fresh apples right off the tree. (or in pie)
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watermelon is my favorite, and then blueberries…
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Berries plums nectarines peaches apricots!
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so many choices!
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I’ll have to take a look at the local trees and see how they’re doing! I would eat a honeys crisp apple any day of the week — wait, I do. Some really good apples seems to have vanished — Johnathon and Winesap? I don’t see them anywhere. BUT there was a guy selling apples in my town the first year I lived here from his grandma’s tree in New Mexico. They were old fashioned Johnathon apples, so tart and so good.
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I know that people are working on bringing back more species of apples
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You answered the question of which came first, the cheese (yesterday) or the apple (today) in that tasty snack.
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And before both of them, there was always a bit of bark or gravel to maw upon.
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Oh man, I’m watching the apple trees at my house. I am never one to wish away summer, but I am looking forward to the harvest.
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how exciting! I used to have pear trees and I couldn’t wait to make pies!
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I had pear trees at a previous home. Pear lemon pie is hard to beat!
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Ooh, I never tried that combo!
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Great quote and so true!
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I think it is too!
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I am so ready for apple season, and it looks like the Paula Red’s are ready to start us off on our journey. 🙂
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a great kick-off!
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Ahh, I’m about ready to have one now. So many uses, apples, delicious. 🍎🍏
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They are so versatile and also great just as they are
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An apple a day keeps the doctor away..ha!
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hopefully!
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I like Leon Brown’s philosophy. The bad ones make us appreciate the good ones a little more, whether we’re talking about apples or days.
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exactly
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not a big apple fan, Beth, or even a small apple fan:) do you know I’ve lost more teeth eating apples than any other food: an apple a day may keep the doctor away but it doesn’t keep the dentist away 😦
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oh, no! I think you could write a funny poem about this, though )
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I never thought of that, Beth: I’ll give it a go 🙂
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I’m so excited for apple season! I always went apple picking as a kid and miss that experience. Not so many apple orchards out in Texas, sadly.
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oh, I’ll bet – glad you had the experience –
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I hope it’s good here, too! Other fruits have been a bit of a bust, this year.
Last year it was hard to find MacIntosh, and those are the apples for me. Best pie apples, ever!
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Everyone has their favs!
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It is just around the corner!
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I see it peeking around the corner
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Oh yes. I saw signs in the Catskill mountains last week…
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