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| Twenty-three minutes including walking out to and back from the orchard. |
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| Calibrating my expectations. It takes a little more than 20 pounds of apples to make a 7-quart canner load of applesauce. One laundry basket full to the handle-holes = two, 7 quart canner loads. |
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| I still jump when one of these cold, clammy tree frogs wraps around my thumb. |
A decent way to beat the yellowjackets is to pick early in the morning while it is still cool and dewy. It is currently 55F outside. However, that slows down the reaction times of the tree frogs and they will wrap around a finger if you dislodge one.
Bonus picture
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| Pear tree in the foreground-right. Grape trellis in the midfield. Apple tree in the background. |
Excellent, ERJ. I like simple measurements that are easy to understand (e.g., 1 laundry basket to two 7 quart loads).
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