The Big Apple
June
Our Gravenstein Apple tree decided to grow one little apple…here it is in June!
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July
It didn’t stay little for long…here it is in July!
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August
It kept growing all summer…here it is in August!
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September
But when Abigail and Vanilla looked out the window in early September…
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Missing
…it was gone!
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Plop
I guess the apple was ripe because it had fallen off onto the soft dirt below (and made an apple crater)! Thank goodness the Hittys got to it before the raccoons did!
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Roll
Abigail and Vanilla rolled it…
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Roll
…and rolled it…
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Roll
…and rolled it…
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Home
…until they got it inside…safe at last!
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Quimper Hittys 
Triumph!
The little tree did an excellent job growing the enormous apple, and Vanilla and Abigail were so glad that the raccoons didn’t get it first!
Amazing! What an adventure this bit of gardening has been – thank you!
Such fun! And what a treat to have our own home grown apple again this year!
Congratulations Abigail and Vanilla – Hope this is the start of many more apples
We hope so too, though we also hope the little tree will put on a bit of “muscle” so it can hold up a few more apples next year!
That was hard work! But their vitamin supply should be safe for the winter with such a huge apple.
Indeed – if an apple a day keeps the doctor away they are definitely all set for the winter!
oh what a shock to see it …gone! but the girls saved it….such a very large apple for such very little girls to handle. wonder what will be done with this lovely fruit
It was very worrying to have it vanish like that, but we were all so happy to discover it down below the tree in it’s little apple crater!
The size of it! I hope it was very delicious, having been allowed to ripen fully and naturally on the tree.