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["Richard MURPHY" <murphman108@msn.com>]

He's still alive; doing fine for 91..........

 

I went to his farm a couple weeks ago.

He was outside, and people were putting up Christmas Lights

 

I had seen a tree branch, weighed down almost to the ground with bright red apples.

It was a Ben Davis.

I asked if I could go pick some and Francis said, "Sure....not a real good apple"

He was right. Nice looking fruit, slightly acidic, not sweet, bland, ..yawn.

 

A Spencer apple, on the other hand is almost a perfect taste balance of what we all like about apples.

I bought some of them, and some Winter Bananas and said good-bye.

 

Richard Murphy