My uncle collects Farmall tractors. These are some of them.



Inside one of them was this little surprise.

Mama Robin has been hard at work!

Here is the cool "thingy" that attracts the flies before the apples form, keeping them from laying their (eggs?) in them. It's a red plastic ball that gets smeared with some VERY sticky stuff. My uncle scrapes it off when it's full of flies and adds more sticky stuff. I'm not good at remembering the names of things, so I don't recall what the sticky stuff is called. It comes in a can that looks like PVC cement, and has a brush attached to the lid to apply it with, just like PVC cement. But it's not. It's something else. Sticky something that works! Uncle said that two years ago he was embarrassed to even give the apples away, they were so full of brown spots. Last year, when he started hanging these sticky balls up in the trees, he had beautiful apples. Very few of them were damaged. I'm definitely keeping this in mind for the future!

And last, the tree that grows Dr. Pepper! I took this picture, and went to find my uncle to see what the cans were all about. I thought he was going to say there was something in the cans that either repelled or attracted something. Nope. He just wanted to say he had a tree that grew Dr. Pepper! He was also wearing a Dr. Pepper hat and T-shirt. I think he likes Dr. Pepper!