I had to put this picture on here just becaus it reminds me of something that happened when I was thriteen or fourteen.  Just typing that made me feel old since I now realize that was well over twenty years ago.  My memories aren't very good because of my head injuries and such but anytime I see an apple orchard I immeadietly think of this story:  My brother, myself and two of our friends were driving around in my bro's 1972 toyota in the boondocks near Bayfield.  That whole summer that's all we really did just drive around listening to guns and roses over and over and over.  Well on this particular day in late September as we were cruising around someone in the car had the bright idea to steal apples from one of the local orchards so the plan was drawn up.  Myself and one of the friends each had a pair of my brothers jeans with the legs tied, we were going to get dropped off and our job was simple fill the pants with delicious stolen apples.  The plan was simple and seemed do-able, since the orchard was so big we figured if we just slipped in amongst the trees no one would notice.  The car stopped and we jumped out, I went right my friend went left, I picked a tree well off the road and began pilfering the sweet fruit.  I was so engrossed with filling the tied up Levi's I didn't see the man with a shotgun coming toward me until he was almost right on top of me.  I dropped the pants and dove under the tree.  Had I really understood that this guy had seen me the whole time I would have realized that jumping under the tree wasn't hiding me at all yet I was so terrified it was an instinctual act.  I was trembling as I layed under the tree watching his booted feet get closer and closer.  I was sure he hadn't seen me dive under it so I thought I was safe.  Wrong! He'd been watching me since I got out of the car and ran to the tree.  He was standing between me and the half filled apple-pants, the shotgun hung at his side as he kicked the pants, "get out from under there before I call the sherriff."  I was mortified, was I going to get shot? Arrested? I had never been in trouble before and I didn't like the way it felt like I was going to poop my pants at all.  I slowly crawled from under the tree and stood up, "It's against the law to steal private property." The angry shotgun wielding farmer says to me.  I look down at my feet and quietly acknowledged that I was aware that stealing was illegel and that my brother had made me do it.  I think the few tears streaming down my face may have calmed the enraged farmer down a bit as he pointed to the road and said "Get out of here and I never want to see you around here again."  I would have ran but I was afraid my bowels would erupt so I more or less power-walked to the road.  The car and my brother were nowhere to be seen.  I walked about two miles down the road before I finally saw my brothers car  coming toward me.  He stopped and I jumped in and noticed them all eating apples from my friends full apple pants.  My brother noticed something wrong right away and before we began moving he spoke, "Where are my pants?" I started crying and retold my horrifying story.  When I had finished they were all laughing and my brother chimed in, "We know we drove past the orchard and watched the farmer catch you.  Now go back and get my pants."  He was serious and after a long argument and alot of crying and pleading on my part I was dropped off at the same exact spot the farmer happened to be walking with my brothers pants.  I sheepishly walked up to the angry gun wielding man I had just been caught stealing from and quietly asked for my brothers pants back.  I'm not sure why he did but he emptied the pants and handed them to me, I graciously took them and fled back to the road where the car was waiting.  Those other three guys in the car laughed and made fun of me for a long time after that and I swore off stealing apples forever.  The moral of this story is don't steal apples in broad daylight and don't use your brothers pants to haul the ill gotten goods away.  Hope you enjoyed one of the most embarresing and scary moments in my life.  Peace!!!