Quilted Tents

In our backyard in the 1950s we had full-sized apple trees. If our parents had used a miscible oil spray, maybe we would have had apples to eat all year round, but they simply assumed the trees and apples could take care of themselves. Mom and Dad were not the most down-to-earth people I ever met, when it came to taking care of material things. (More about this on a later post LOL.)

ANYway . . . so the apples would fall from the trees in blankets of tiny green hard spheres, about the size of superballs. When we wanted to make tents in the backyard and sleep out overnight, we would try, in our inefficient child ways, to clear the way for our tent floor. Then we would lay down a thin cotton quilt on the grass, and with clothespins, we would attach two more cotton quilts to the clothesline. (I feel like I am relating an experience from the 1800s or something -- no one has clotheslines any more!) Then we would put pillows and more quilts into the "tent" and bring out snacks and a flashlight.

During the night we would hear the nightbirds (OH that sound, I wish I knew what those birds were), the coal docks, trains, crickets, bats, owls, and . . . the continual fall of MORE little green apples onto the tent!