It's this place about an hour past riverside, it's one of those places where they have like, a bunch of dirt feilds everywhere and then some guy got this tight idea to put grass over one of the dirt fields, gifting the community with a soccer field/football field/place to walk your HORSE in small circles, which is no big deal cause in Oak Glen everyone who is anyone owns a horse...I mean really, there are a lot of horses over there..
Oak Glen has an apple orchard, its a little reserved plot of land where they do things like civil war reenactments and uh..apple growing...
Well around october [which i assume to be like, prime apple picking season or something] Oak Glen opens its orchards to the public, charging around 6 dollars a bag. In short you pay to go and pick your own produce.
Now what mostly perplexes me is, while it is cheaper to pick your own apples, why do it? I mean, the apples that you can actually reach are about half the size of my fist, keep in mind i have remarkably small hands, and the apples you can't reach, which are the only ones worth actually picking, are WAYYYY at the tiptop of the trees, and even if you can manage to get one down chances are a bird or worm, or both, have gotten to it long before you.
There is one trick to apple picking though. I don't know the exact name of it, but its a little basket-thing with claws at the top of it, this basket-thing is attatched to a long pole, and it makes the whole "go for the apples at the tiptop" thing alot eaiser..alot easier
Now just because you have this apple-picking tool, does not mean your actually going to benefit from it. Like i said, most apples at the top, while bigger and riper, have been attacked by said birds and worms and just arn't generally something you'd want to consume.
The highlight of my day at Oak Glen was as following...
[I had the pole-claw-apple picker-thing]
"Mom, i'm gonna go give this to someone since were leaving"
"noooo, go out into the middle of the field and drop it!"
this was a brilliant idea. People actually ran towards its, like, they flocked to it.
If it weren't for the cute little asian girl who got to it first, i'm pretty confident there would have been some bloodied lips and black eyes involved.
survival of the fittest..i think not
survival of the best equipped....maybe...but only if you're willing to look past the worms...
2 comments:
I always thought apple picking would be fun, you convinced me otherwise.
I agree with chad, im never going apple picking. that sounds stupid. ha, jay play. but yeah, i was here, i read.
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