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["Lynda" <lurine AT com-pair.net>]

Around here we have to be very careful as we have bears that love the fruit 
trees.  With young trees you have to stake them every which way you can 
think of or the bears bend them over to get the fruit.

Lynda
--"I'm fascinated by the hard line you're drawing over religion -- It gets
used too much, as an excuse, a fall guy, a weapon, a con.  A lot of people,
maybe most, don't mean it except when it suits them."  Dallas
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Marie McHarry" <mmcharry AT gmail.com>


> I don't know that there are any pears that keep like apples. I love
> pears but they don't last. My sister has two tre es and at least one
> of them is producing the best pears I've ever had. Alas, the season is
> short. We picked a half dozen or so off the tree and I chewed my way
> through them in a couple of days. When I called her to tell her to
> bring a few more just a week later they were all gone.
>
> Interestingly, coyotes really, really like pears. At least one and
> maybe a pair had been coming in and eating all the pears on the
> ground. Her dogs took serious exception to that, since they liked the
> pears too.