We have an apple tree in our yard, and only a mild affinity for apples. That means we have a lot of rotten apples on the ground in the backyard. Hard to mow the lawn like that.
So today I put a bucket in the "garden", (giant weed patch that we don't mow), and told the kids to throw apples into it. First person to get three apples in the bucket wins.
We got about 200 apples off the grass, and the kids had no idea that I had just gotten half an hour of work out of them. Now we all have sore arms and an almost clean backyard. Score one for Mom.
