Fruit Farm Dilemma

The spring haying is done (thanks to my neighbors, who have hungry cattle). In exchange for mowing my field, they get the hay. And I get the leavings to mulch my garden.

Now, the race is on to see who will get the fruit this year, Pam or the Deer!

Last year, the deer got ALL the pears, a bumper crop decimated in the night. They ate every pear and even parts of the tree, the exact night before I planned to harvest. This year, I am watching both the apples and the pears with a gimlet eye, hoping to beat the ruminants at their gustatory game. Let's see how they feel when they go to eat that bounty and find that the humans harvested a day early!

Bill commented that it must have seemed like Juli was living at home again. That girl could go through fruit like lightning. Yes, just like a herd of deer.