Before you read this, if you pick no other in the past to reply, for whatever reasons, START NOW with this one!! I have a dilemma!
So we have this AMAZING apple tree in a ditch on a gravel road that goes to our farm. The road is a public gravel road and the ditch is too. I guess you could say the state owns it. This apple tree sits right in the ditch and produces the most AMAZING apples every TWO years. I've been at the mercy of my FIL one time a week or so ago, to pick some in the bucket of the tractor and then last week we picked more.
OK back to my dilemma, DH calls me on the cell and says 'you'd better get going, some lady is picking the apples'. I immediately start freaking out. For one wondering why HE couldn't stop and talk to her and two, two years ago the same thing happened and some person took EVERY FREAKIN APPLE and left us with nothing.
SO....being the kind of person i am I'm all worked up. I hop in the old van (another post in and of itself lets say it involves a little fender bender) parked down at the end of the driveway. But wait, the door is locked. Run back up the driveway to find keys and see C'man is awake.
Oh the child police would have a hay day knowing i was going to drive 3 miles while my kids were sleeping in the house. C'man came with me and off we went.
DH's last words were 'tell her she'd better not eat them, we sprayed them' he tried to think of some toxic spray to tell her but couldn't. I wasn't going to listen any way. If i had had a gun I'd had strapped that on me and been on my way.
I get there and she's pulling away. I flag her down and proceed to tell her 'you pickin those apples? We sprayed them!!"
Her face went white. 'Oh dear she said, what a horrible time of the year to spray them, what did you use?'
"ahhhhh I'm not sure" Mean while I'm thinking about sending my son to the back of her van and unload those apples but quickly realizing he's in his underwear and not big enough to do such a devious act.
We proceeded to talk about the apples, how she asked permission to get them from the land owner (remembering this tree belongs to know one per say) and she is just a real nice lady. We talked for some 10 min. We ended the conversation by her calling me tonight to find out what kind of spray was used.
I told her it was probably what ever the crop duster used but wasn't sure.
I call DH pissed at him for setting me up like that. WHY couldn't he had just talked to her, WHY did he tell me to tell her it'd been sprayed, etc but he said she should know it was sprayed with the hi boy and more then likely the crop duster 'dust' wouldn't have gotten on it.
SO in you come...................what do you think? Do you think i was cruel, lying, deceitful crazy lady?
My plan is when/if she calls is just to tell her that DH said it was the hi boy that got it and just wash them really well and wish her well. Oh and that I'd love some of that apple cider she plans on making.
Thoughts?? Are any of you peeing your pants in laughter?
Any responses i will put a number in the hat and will personally mail you some of the coveted apples! Don't be shy, i would like more then one or 2 responses. Oh and really they are SAFE to eat!! No spray, well other then i guess insecticides but even that shouldn't be much, if any. I just ate one myself and I'm still kickin!!
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
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3 comments:
My thoughts are DH TOTALLY set you up. Deep down he must love getting you all worked up:) That or those apples are UNBELIEVABLE!
My thoughts...who does that lady think she is taking ALL of the freaking apples? Gee, if they are no one's apples, then they are in essence everyones. I'd have taken the approach to say "MY HUSBAND said they are sprayed, but I wonder if the spray would come off with a little soapy water ? But you know the next time you want apples, we like apples also...can we split the pickings from the tree? Some people would say first come first serve, but you live close too. Maybe get in there quicker...she must have it on her calendar or drive by often to watch them ripen to be picked"
What the heck was DH doing that was so important to not stop and talk to the lady? He likes them too, right? And you have sleeping babes. I'd have been steaming mad about being told to lie but he was hoping to deter her from her bags of apples.
I don't think that what you did was devious. Would you have taken every last apple if you would have gotten there first? I can't imagine someone taking every apple. Maybe that will deter her from taking some in the future. It's high time the lady learned to share!
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