Growing up, there was a family who lived across the street from us by the name of Wallace. There were six kids, one girl and five boys. Their yard was the cut through yard to get to the rest of our friends houses.

Mr. Wallace loved to grow things. He always had a garden and grew tomatoes, lettuce and carrots. But his favorite was peaches. The Wallaces had a double lot and he must have had three dozen peach trees. He sold many of the peaches to a local grocery store. But Mr. Wallace also had red and purple grape vines, plum trees, four kinds of apple trees, two kinds of pear trees and one big cooking apple tree. For us kids, it was our own private fruit stand. We could eat any of the fruit we wanted as long as we didn't waste it and as long as we didn't eat from Mrs. Wallace's cooking appl…