"RodS" > wrote in message
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> On 23/08/2011 7:24 PM, Ozgirl wrote:
>>
>>
>> "Julie Bove" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>>
>>> "Storrmmee" > wrote in message
>>> ...
>>>> you better start buying jars and canning supplies now, pear
>>>>
>>>> you better start buying canning supplies now, pears and apples
>>>> trees
>>>> are famous for over producing the year after a good shearing,
>>>> Lee"Julie Bove"
>>>
>>> Really? Interesting. I have plenty of jars and rings. I think I got
>>> rid of the tops because those can go bad when they are old. The only
>>> problem is, nobody much wants to eat what I've canned. My parents
>>> are
>>> afraid to eat home canned foods. They think they will get botulism.
>>> I
>>> don't think my brother and his family eat apples or pears. Angela
>>> loves them but only wants to eat the stuff from the store with the
>>> pretty pictures on them. I just tossed out the last of the pears and
>>> a
>>> couple of jars of papplesauce. That year we didn't get many apples
>>> but
>>> tons of pears.
>>
>> I had a funny experience today. I live in a major city, in the
>> 'burbs. I
>> had a knock on the door this arvo and opened it to find a man leaning
>> up
>> the stairs holding onto the rail and head down. In what I call a
>> getting
>> rid of a fur ball position, lol. He was dressed in khaki shorts,
>> flannelette, chequered shirt, work boots and a hat you would call a
>> stetson. He looked at me and didn't speak at first so I said "yes?".
>> To
>> that he started to "drawl" like some country people here tend to do.
>>
>> He had a whole apple in his hand and a half eaten one and eventually
>> said, very slowly, that he was from Stanthorpe and up here for the
>> day
>> in his truck trying to sell his wonderful apples.
>>
>> I don't keep cash and I have plenty of apples anyway and had to
>> decline
>> but it was a weird experience. I know the floods and cyclone have
>> done a
>> big number on crops up here in QLD and I admired his initiative.
>> Wondering if he got to sell anyway. When I declined he just said "ok,
>> well I'll see ya next year then". lol
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>
> You'll sometimes see them with a truckload of oranges parked on the
> side of the road during orange season bought them years ago great
> fruit just not up to the supermarkets strict standard slight blemish
> or slightly under size good price too as I remember.

Yeah, but Stanthorpe is a long way to come to sell (hopefully) a few
apples