The 15th Pawpaw and Slugs

As you see from the pawpaw harvesting chart, since Sept 8th, we had endured a severe lack of ripe pawpaws. The only relief came yesterday, when NJ found a lone pawpaw on the ground. But we knew some ripe ones were on their way, preparing for for their plummet to the earth, since just walking past the Shenandoah we could smell the ripeness.

And so, as you saw on the pawpaw harvesting chart above, this morning we harvested five pawpaws. They fell during the night and most of them had generate some interest among the lowly creatures (no offense to them) of the lawn: slugs, some ants, and a roly-poly. Not wanting to eat from the same parts of the pawpaws as the lowly creatures (no offense), I used a spoon to scoop out the areas that they had been eating. You'll notice that the pawpaw on the right has the biggest chunks removed. That one, I think, had the most slugs, and among ants, roly polies, and slugs, slugs are my least preferred to eat after. 

One of these was the fifteenth pawpaw to fall this year.

A pic from the recent long weekend we took to the southern part of our state:
better the pawpaws plummeting from the trees than me from this cliff!