Re: Stolen fruit

Bracey Tiede wrote:
I agree that the stolen fruit is somehow much tastier. A pomegranate tree in San Diego 'lost' fruit to a couple of 9/10 year old girls one year. We loved pulling them apart and making a huge mess. My parents had a convertible and I loved to sit in the back seat on warm evenings and go for a ride around town smelling the citrus bloom sweetness and the sagebrush tang. A few years earlier in Connecticut there was an apple tree that never had ripe fruit at all because all the neighborhood kids stripped it early. Fortunately the tree's owners were parents and forgiving.
When we first came to our road there was a short distamce away an abandoned apple orchard which lookes beautiful every spring, but which the local kids alway reided before the fruit could ripen and it wass mostly used as ammo in their battles. It always seemed such a shame the kids neve actually enjoyed any of it properly.

later the land was sold and the new owners cut down the old trees but then planted new ones (at the back of their house out of our sight alas..

Later we had a few problems ourselves once our grapevine began to produce as this was on a high trellis very visible from the road and the local kids began to look on it as a good source of ripe fruit for their enjoyment. It would not have mattered much if there had been just one or two of them, but they began to come by in droves leaving little for us. They used to get in by a narrow path between the garage and the side fence, so in the end we had to put a high gate there and keep it locked. There was one really humerous episode before that one afternoon when my kids and I were sitting in our front-facing kitchen enjoying a snack after school. A party of yougsters came in sight and obviously suddenly saw the ripe grapes but not our watching faces and turned back to go raiding.

As we have a door leading out from the living room on to the terrace under the grapevine it was the work of a very few seconds to slip out and form a welcoming committee. I can still remember their shocked faces when they come through the cut and found us waiting for them. They certainly did not stop to find out what we intended!!

Moira

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