Time for some delicious fruit! ... oh.

Some days I have posts all planned out, like when I'm going to build something or put something into the ground. Some days though posts just happen. Those are usually pretty fun and exciting. Note that I said usually.

Because sometimes it's not that much fun. This was the case the other morning when I went outside to find that the raccoons had not only sampled some of the delicious (or so I've heard) passion fruit that's been ripening on my vines, but they pulled the whole trellis down.

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I know it was pretty early in the morning, and I may have been a little groggy still, but I'm pretty certain this trellis is supposed to be less horizontal:

I've been checking the passion fruit every day for the last week or so, as I know they're getting close to being ripe.

Apparently the raccoons have been doing the same, but they're not as patient as I am, and will gladly munch not-yet-quite-ripe-enough fruits.

These are the tasty little seed pods:

This is a now-empty fruit:

So I think they've gotten every fruit on this vine. Not much I can do except correct the orientation of the trellis and get on with my morning:

I bet you're wondering why I'm not more upset about this, aren't you? I mean, I've been looking forward to trying these fruits for a while now, enjoying the beautiful flowers for sure, but also wanting a taste of the results. Why am I not cursing these critters and consulting the phone book for the closest pest control company?

I've got a secret backup vine, high out of their reach.

Shhhh. Don't tell the raccoons.

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