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journey11
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I let these stay on as long as I could. (The red color becomes deeper and the flavor sweeter). But the hornets were starting to get after them (giagantic yellow hornets--sand hornets, I think they're called). :bee They'd chew out an inch and a half diameter hole in one side of the apple, work their way all around the core and come out the other side leaving a hollow apple skin hanging on the tree! 
I had to fight my way through them (they'd stay on the tree day and night), but I got the last of my apples harvested!!
My neighbor let me borrow her apple picker gadget, but it pulled off the pole and I got it stuck high up in the tree. I ended up taking a long board and just shaking the picker and the apples out of the tree.
I think if one would have hit me on the head, I would surely have passed out. Not to mention I am allergic to hornets/wasps/etc. But I was going to get those apples one way or another! Too nice to let them go to waste. 
I had to fight my way through them (they'd stay on the tree day and night), but I got the last of my apples harvested!! My neighbor let me borrow her apple picker gadget, but it pulled off the pole and I got it stuck high up in the tree. I ended up taking a long board and just shaking the picker and the apples out of the tree.
I think if one would have hit me on the head, I would surely have passed out. Not to mention I am allergic to hornets/wasps/etc. But I was going to get those apples one way or another! Too nice to let them go to waste. 
