The kids are gone, the house was semi-clean, and we headed outside to handle routine chores. I had just finished dealing with produce (which included throwing ripened, chicken pecked tomatoes AT the chickens), when my dearest comes around the yard and tells me the unbelievable.
All that work I did cleaning out the pantry, preparing jars, buying lids and jar rings for canning the next two weeks...it's worthless. Someone came into the yard between last Sat evening and today and TOOK EVERY SINGLE PEAR AND APPLE OFF OUR TREES!!!! There was probably about a 5 gal bucket of apples left (thankfully I had already done some), but we had yet to pick a pear, and this was probably the nicest looking pears we've had in the last five years. I feel violated. If someone had wanted some, all they had to do was ask and I would have gladly shared. BUT TO TAKE EVERYTHING?!? This is not the first time this has happened. This is what I hate about living where we do. It's isolated, but a nice place. We work our tails off, seldom get to enjoy it, only to find people using and abusing it without asking or caring. It makes me so stinkin' mad! I told Bobby it makes me want to post a sign on the light pole: To our Apple & Pear THIEF, may your stomach rot!
To help me calm down I've tried to catch up on blog reading. And of course I come across the verse, "love thinks no evil"... has anyone found an exemption clause for thieves in that passage?
All that work I did cleaning out the pantry, preparing jars, buying lids and jar rings for canning the next two weeks...it's worthless. Someone came into the yard between last Sat evening and today and TOOK EVERY SINGLE PEAR AND APPLE OFF OUR TREES!!!! There was probably about a 5 gal bucket of apples left (thankfully I had already done some), but we had yet to pick a pear, and this was probably the nicest looking pears we've had in the last five years. I feel violated. If someone had wanted some, all they had to do was ask and I would have gladly shared. BUT TO TAKE EVERYTHING?!? This is not the first time this has happened. This is what I hate about living where we do. It's isolated, but a nice place. We work our tails off, seldom get to enjoy it, only to find people using and abusing it without asking or caring. It makes me so stinkin' mad! I told Bobby it makes me want to post a sign on the light pole: To our Apple & Pear THIEF, may your stomach rot!
To help me calm down I've tried to catch up on blog reading. And of course I come across the verse, "love thinks no evil"... has anyone found an exemption clause for thieves in that passage?
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I am sorry about that :(