It Was A Fruity Day!

We have fruit!  We picked another watermelon and this time is was ripe, huge and delicious!  The first watermelon that we picked, if you remember, was not ready yet.  When I cut that watermelon it was still yellow inside.  Yesterday's watermelon was red and juicy and had a lot of taste.  There are two types of watermelon growing in the orchard one is sangria and the other it a round version that has little seeds.  We also have two type of cantaloupe growing.  One is the standard one and the other is called small sweet.  The small sweet grow to be about 12 inches in diameter and are called "personal cantaloupes".  They were delicious too and perfect for just one person.  Their flesh is a deeper orange than a standard cantaloupe but juicy and sweet, yum!  So for the next few weeks we will be able to eat fresh watermelon and cantaloupe, my favorite!  We also made 31 half pint jars of grape jelly making the grand total so far of 47 and there are more grapes to be picked!
On the raccoon count, George trapped three yesterday in the corn field.  That makes a grand total of 8 so far in 6 days.  If the raccoon were not destroying all of our corn, 11 rows gone already, we would not be doing this but since they think the corn is theirs we have to take these drastic measures. George and Tim take the raccoons and release them at the river.  No raccoon has been hurt as far as we know.  I will begin a running tally on how many we trap!  Remember, we do this to Save Our Corn!  So, as you can see, it really was a fruity day!