Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Eve's Apple?

A. Unabashed Pacifist:

Ready or not, Eirene is coming around the mountain.

B. Unabashed Christian:

Holy One,

So, here we are again, you and I. You mostly silent. I waiting for the words to express a thought or two for you. Even when the words do not seem to come, it doesn’t matter. For here we are again, you and I.
Amen

C. Un-quoting Jesus:

“Why do I always have to clean up the mess?”

[He was the first-born child, but did He whine as a child? Not like this.]

D. Blog: Apple Varieties

Tom Brown has made it his mission to locate and keep old apple tree varieties. There are thousands of varieties beyond what we find in grocery stores. He has found more than 900 “old timey” varieties in this region of the country. Most of the names you will never find in the stores. Here’s a small sampling of names:

Church, Biscuit, Black Bud, Big Rambo, Accordian, Bug Horn, Burningtown Spice, Candy, Chintz, Coffee, Fired Sweet, Fall Limbertwig, Flat Top, Grandma, Green Horse, Half Acre, Horseshoe, Iron Wedge, Jewel Smoker, Joe Buff, Kansas Sweet, Twenty Ounce, Trout, White Sheepnose, World’s Wonder, Yellow Spitzenburg, Pokey Seedling, Neverfail, Night Dropper, Luet’s Great Keeper, Little Brushy Spice, Mongolian, Greasy Ball, Prissy Gum, Red Cheese, Vagabond, Pig Nose, Thinskin, Granny Christian, Duchess of Oldenburg.

I don’t think the selection at the grocery store will ever look the same. Monocultured apples can’t cut it. Now I'm wondering, if we edit the story, what was the name of the variety Eve ate?

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