Apples Live Up To Prediction

rich fertile tree with brown-turning wrinkled leaves surrounded by your own fruitful bounty many rounded orbs with teeth marks in them do Kansas deer have teeth? begin to count them as I rake them up one apple, two apples, three apples, four lose count at fifty-eight or sixty-eight, unsure it is going to be a hard winter I tell my husband, sorting these apples is a mess. some are barely salvageable, squishy and overused there are few without defects, but I do not blame the tree she does the best she can, every year this year she surpassed herself living up to prediction of Farmer’s almanac winter will be colder and nastier than usual which explains this unforeseen number of apples in October