This past Friday, my boyhood friend Matt Lange brought his wife and three sons down from Dubuque for a day of hanging out. We opted to go to Stone's Apple Barn to pick apples. The kids had a great time, as did their parents.
Matt and I had more than one conversation during our apple filling of days gone by when we'd go with my elder brother Aaron and his friend Pat Duggan to the mounty. There was a convent there, with the nuns working a huge apple orchard. Upon gaining permission from the nuns to take "the windfall" apples, Pat, being the biggest of the 4 of us would start shaking an apple tree and we'd be under it catching apples and filling our shirts. It was also on more than one occasion when we were chased out of the orchard by the nuns.
It just seemed weird to have to pay for the apples (which is also maybe why I showed up with not enough money for purchase the apples...thanks Matt), however, it was nice not having to bike out to the orchard like we did when we went to the mounty.
Here are some pictures.
We are loaded up and ready to return to pay for the apples!!
Here we are heading out to get some (34 pounds) apples!
It didn't take the boys very long to get the bags filled!
Gideon loaded with both hands full!
Thankfully Matt was there to help Gideon out, as he needed LOTS of help getting the apples that were high up in the trees.
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