Neither Ashton nor I proclaim to be great farmers, but it started to look like the pomegranates were ready to harvest. Many were splitting open and they were looking red and ripe-like to us. After tasting the sweet little pods of juice, we figured they probably weren't going to get much better! So the two of us spent some time pulling our large crop of fruits off the trees. I'm sure we had well over a hundred after all was said and done! This year, rather than trying to juice and create anything with them, we selflessly shared them with friends and neighbors! (Also keeping some for snacking on!)
After Nathan returned from school that day, he helped to bag and staple three to five pomegranates to each brown bag. Then we stapled all the bags shut. We had just over 30 little paper sacks of fruits to give.
A few days later, Ashton must've been in the harvesting mood, because Nathan came up the stairs warning me that Ashton had 'done something really bad.' It turned out that he had whacked all of the little pears off of the pear tree. We gathered them up and are working on getting them ripened up!
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