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Toss that fruitcake

1/3/2019

 
January 3rd is 'Fruitcake Toss Day', and it's always been one of my most popular 'Special Days' photos.  Seems a LOT of people hate fruitcake, and are more than happy to see it come to some good use. However, that photo was taken 6 years ago, and I thought I should try do an update.

​So Aaron and Coco gathered up all the unwanted fruitcake, and took it outside...
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This time, for an extra challenge, they decided to include the use of a bat....
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Aaron was going to be the pitcher, while Coco passed him new pieces of cake....
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Olivia was ready....
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Milo was back-catcher, although he hoped he wouldn't have to...
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The first piece of fruitcake was too far out of range.... and fell into the snow....
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Coco passed Aaron a new piece.....
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Byuri and Erzulie watched in anticipation.....
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But Olivia missed again....and again.....
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They were starting to get low on fruitcake....
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Aaron got ready to pitch some more....
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...and this time she smashed it!!
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"Here, pass me another one..."
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...and she hit it again.....
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"Anyone else want to try??"

*Disclaimer -  No fruitcake was actually smashed or wasted for this story. All the fruitcake pieces were  gathered up off the fresh, clean snow, and happily devoured by Jan (who loves fruitcake, and generously allowed me to use some of it for my pictures)   The smashed 'crumbs' were from an unwanted sacrificial stand-in.
Dorothy
1/3/2019 11:19:25 pm

Martha, oh that's too funny! I love the disclaimer. I guess you have to include that in case FANA wants to take action. FANA (Fruitcake Association of North America) - laugh.

Martha
1/7/2019 04:48:48 pm

Thanks! I figured the few people out there who love fruitcake would be aghast at what it looks like I did - not to mention Jan, who would never have let me crumble his cake and toss it all over the snow like that. Chunks yes, they can be picked up. But crumbs not so much.

Donna
1/4/2019 12:18:14 am

Hilarious! I'll never look at fruitcake - or baseball - the same way again!

Martha
1/7/2019 04:50:08 pm

Thanks! I wanted to do a new fruitcake toss photo, but didn't want to do the same thing all over, hence the bat.


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