Mary and Pat took me out to Peterson's orchard where we spent an hour buying some apples and reminiscing about the days when we had a similar orchard.
These photos say it all: our back yard had the same stack of Mac apples piled up in exactly the same apple boxes.
And, of course, the ladders. My father was very tidy in the yard: "a place for everything and everything in its place". Large ladders stacked together; medium ladders next them; short step ladders last in the line. I recall that picking bags were hung up high from hooks. Buckets? Used but were for the cherries.
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Mary's new residence is in Andover Seniors Residence on Lakeshore Road. Having booked myself into an AirBnB next to the hospital I simply went down to the CPR railway crossing and walked the lakeshore trail along to her place.
As well as finding the excellent AirBnB I discovered that there is now a bus service which does several circular routes in and around town.
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Mary and her friend Mary M's thrown pots!
Andover Seniors Residence - very nice! It's large and spacious and very new. Mary has a small garden area adjacent to the kitchen in her little apartment.
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