Fresh from the Farm

What this country needs is a good
apple bobbing
“We hope you have the memory tucked away somewhere of sticking you head in tub of water full of floating apples and coming up close to snagging one. If not, it’s never too late to have a good childhood as they say. It takes some skill to be able to get an apple when they’re bouncing on the waves and bobbing and weaving away from your confident jaws. Winners seem to be the kids with buck teeth and big mouths as I recall. But it always seemed some lad with big lips would latch onto one and suck like a vacuum truck and haul his prize out of the bounding main with nary a scratch on it. Apple bobbing is a great game for any party and sure to get a lot of laughs and action. Just spread some towels on the floor…or a small tarp if you’ve got one…fill the biggest bowl or bucket or tub you have and drop in a handful of apples. The trick of course is to be one of the last ones in line. That way the others have splashed out most of the water and the level is low enough you can press the apple against the bottom without drowning and hook your teeth into it really good. Lots of good life lessons can be learned in it too. To laugh at yourself, to be brave and discover it’s ok to make a fool of yourself, to cheer others on, to know that no matter how funny you get looking, the others will be looking wet too, and oh…don’t wear mascara to parties or you won’t be able to have fun. Now if we could just get those politicians to bob for apples, we suspect many of our problems would go away. What this country needs is a good apple bobbing.”