Rose is Rose by Don Wimmer and Pat Brady for October 03, 2023

You do deserve your just payment.

Sample enough and the cart will never fill up.

The horse ranch in Oregon where I boarded my horse had an ancient apple orchard (oooh, the pies and cider I made from those apples!). We would gather the windfalls at feeding time and treat each of the 30+ horses to a couple of apples. And when I made cider, they got the squeezed-out pulp. Happy horses!

Side benefits!

Freshly picked apples go in one end of the horse, and come out the other end as road apples.

Does he get his peck of the apples.

An apple arc?

I see the principle has been mentioned in a reply to a comment, but for those who missed it: Deuteronomy 25:4  Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn. (King James authorized version)

I was RIGHT! >D

When I lived in California we found a tree orchard where we could pick apples with our granddaughter. They also made fresh cider. Then they got rid of their master gardener and went organic. The next year it was a challenge to find an apple not riddled with worms but I watched them take apples complete with worms to make fresh cider.

I’m sure Meemaw has an apple or two for you.

A scene straight out of Amish Country

Mema will defiantly pay horse for his work.

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At the old house we had an apple tree in the front yard where the deer would eat some of the apples. Once a year, I would pick a couple of paper bagfuls of the apple (used an apple catcher on the end of a pole) and take the bags to a friend who had horses. His wife would bake a couple of pies and the horses would enjoy the apples.

That’s his pay, right Mee Maw?

Fella, trust Meemaw to keep you engaged and filled while she plans her next move.

Don’t worry pretty horse, Meemaw will have a few apples for you after she gets the cart loaded. She is an animal lover and would never forget to give you your treat.

My parents had 2 “starter” apple trees which came with the house. We never had any apples we could eat – something always happened to them – fell before ripe, something ate at it, etc. – in the about 45 years family owned the house.