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      • Chapter 1 – Sweet Little Hoitie
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An Apple Hobby

On October 17, 2017June 3, 2019 By Lois RoelofsIn aging, retirement10 Comments

What do neighbors, gas stations, construction sites, churches, and nonprofit homeless shelters have in common? No guess? Each has been the site of repeated visits from my husband this fall in his second year of apple picking. After a lot of non-farm activity in our eleven years of living in downtown Chicago, last fall, during …

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Drowning in Applesauce

On October 16, 2016October 22, 2016 By Lois RoelofsIn aging, retirement, Sioux Falls15 Comments

I never dreamed I’d complain about applesauce. But picking apples and making applesauce have become my husband’s new BIG hobby. It started when he helped his sister pick her apples while visiting in MN a few weeks ago. When we got home, he started on our daughter’s trees. And then the applesauce binge started. After …

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