Let’s have an Apple Evening Shall We?

Three apple related stories in honour of the Apple Event that took place earlier this evening.

First off is the indignant Jasper after being rudely awakened by the Apple Chime when I had to restart the Mac with him lying on the table in front of me. I have witnessed this a couple of times now and generally the kittens do not like this noise! What kind of kittens are they? Spare a thought for the kittens - they are going in for their ops on Friday - they will be coming home without certain parts on Friday night. That'll learn them!

Next is the first use, this evening, of an Ikea apple corer. I bought it at the end of the apple season last year AFTER I had stood and cored all those apples we used for apple crumbles and schnapps. I'm sure it was ridiculously cheap but it will be worth its weight in gold. 2 seconds is all it took to core this home-grown apple! The other thing that was ridiculous was the way the children both pounced on bits of the apple - seriously, you would think they had never seen an apple before!

And last, but not least, imagine my horror when I saw 4 or 5 damaged apples on the small tree this evening when I went out to check on the chickens. You may remember the two trees are inside the chicken run, but as none of the chickens even showed the least bit of interest in the apples last year we really didn't think it was necessary to build the run around them. I stood and puzzled over this destruction for a good couple of minutes until David stuck his head out the door and said he had sat in the living room watching a couple of chickens up the tree, pecking away at the apples. They are about waist height (the apples, not the chickens), and with another wee jump the chickens could be up and over the fence and away in to the neighbour's garden!

How's that for a home grown Apple Event?