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Miller’s Big Red Apple Orchard

Sign to the barn at Miller’s Big Red Apple Orchard
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Today while trying to figure out something to do, Danielle and I headed over to Miller’s Big Red Apple Orchard. While we didn’t pick any apples, we did wander around a bit and acquire some donuts. I hadn’t been there since last going with and and a bunch of others a few years back. Being around 89°F today it was a bit unseasonably warm, so we didn’t spend too much time there, but it was still fun.

It was really obvious that the animals were really hot too with the sheep hiding in a barn, pigs laying in mud, and llamas just laying around. One of the llamas had recently been shorn, but I think that is because it was so matted with burrs that efforts were made to just trim it shorter. Currently its head still had at least 50 individual large burrs on it.

Oh, and of course, no rural Michigan activity is complete without a truck bearing many flag-waiving stickers.

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6 Responses

  1. beerdiablo October 8, 2007

    In Dallas, vehicles w/a load of Americana stickers on the back of the vehicle is usually a sign of a bad driver.

    1. c0nsumer October 8, 2007

      Really? I figured it was just the sign of a native. ;)

  2. hannunvaakuna October 8, 2007

    Oh, and of course, no rural Michigan activity is complete without a truck bearing many flag-waiving stickers.

    your snobbery knows no bounds, does it? it’s a wonder you tolerate any of us!

    1. c0nsumer October 8, 2007

      Pah.

      It just never fails to surprise me when I pull into a parking lot of some place just a bit north of here and see stickers like those.

      It’s just like being around here and being cut off / parked overly close to by SUVs driven by guys on cell phones or women who can barely see over the steering wheel, or going downtown and seeing cars without bumpers or windows.

      1. hannunvaakuna October 9, 2007

        i guess i don’t see what the big deal is – one person’s choice and all that. if that truck were covered in bumper stickers that were non-patriotic/flag-wavin, would that somehow be more “okay” than a truck covered in the flag-waving ones?

        1. c0nsumer October 9, 2007

          It’s not really a big deal, but whenever someone puts a sticker like that on display, they are inviting comment. If they didn’t want people to see and read (and likely think about) the sticker, they wouldn’t display it.

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