B.C. by Mastroianni and Hart for June 26, 2021

There’s been more than one fruit tree that has gotten a lot of animals drunk.

Quick, start picking!

I think that’s a female dinosaur.

I don’t know about the (whole) tree, but it does seem the apples that are in-cider must have fermented.

It appears that she is "picky’ – she left a lot of apples on the tree – maybe she likes the older riper ones – the ones that have aged to just the right stage.

Yeah! These prices at “Apple stores” can make you dizzy – or did I just “Think different”?

I’m not sure that FRESH apples would make anyone drunk… The apples that would’ve fallen to the ground and over-ripen, maybe…

When my old mull berry tree drops its berries on the ground the sparrows fly down and start in eating the fermented ones and when they get their fill they start getting loopy and fly in weird and crazy ways because they are quite drunk from it.

At the ranch in Oregon where I kept my horse, there was an old apple orchard, and the owners had an old-fashioned hand-cranked cider press, so one day I tried my hand at pressing some cider. We mashed several bushels of apples, and made a few gallons of cider (delicious, by the way), but it was late by the time we finished, so I just bagged up the pressed mash in burlap bags and left them in the yard. When I returned a week later, I noticed the ranch’s free range (i.e. they had the entire 100 acres to freely range across, including the yard where I’d left the bags of mash) chickens were behaving strangely, staggering around and even falling over! Turns out, the mash had fermented, and the chickens had pecked holes in the burlap, eaten the mash, and gotten drunk! What a sight. The next time we made cider, we made sure to feed the mash to the horses instead of the chickens (well, we did give the chickens a few handfuls), and well BEFORE it fermented.

The Prehistoric prequel to The Birds.

Time to make some hard apple cider, then?

Drunken squirrels are pretty funny.

Wait til he goes through the grape vines…

Tomorrow, that head is really gonna be saurus…

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Have an apple, Jack.

The tree doesn’t ferment; the fruit does.

Many moons ago we loved watching the deer stagger away from my grampa’s crabapple tree

Well then, it must have a yeast infection.

I seem to remember once reading that you shouldn’t feed apples to cows because they will actually ferment in the cow’s stomachs.

Must have been planted by Johnny Applejack.

Wouldn’t the apples be on the ground for them to ferment?

Florida holly

Dino Capp heading for the canal….

OK, from the look on the guy’s face on the left looking at the tree with the big hole I am thinking that is a male dinosaur and there is a hidden dirty joke here.