Plums
Or plum, to be more accurate.
You may recall that a few months ago, following the sad demise of Buddug the cat, I planted a Victoria Plum tree on her grave. I had taken the plum tree from our old house, digging it up and putting it in a large tree bag. Its roots were so wet and rotted I fully expected it to wither and die, but miraculously it survived. Even more miraculously it produced three tiny plums - perhaps in a last-ditch, stress-induced bid to procreate before dying.
Over the course of our non-summer, two of the unripe plums gave up the ghost, falling to the ground like little green bogies. The third, however, stayed put. And grew. And changed colour.
Yesterday afternoon, during one of the brief lulls in torrential rain, I noticed that the sole plum was ripe almost to bursting. In fact small insects had begun to feast upon its flesh. So I picked it, and cleaned it, and then ate it.
Despite being made almost entirely of essence of Maine Coon Cat, it tasted surprisingly good.
You may recall that a few months ago, following the sad demise of Buddug the cat, I planted a Victoria Plum tree on her grave. I had taken the plum tree from our old house, digging it up and putting it in a large tree bag. Its roots were so wet and rotted I fully expected it to wither and die, but miraculously it survived. Even more miraculously it produced three tiny plums - perhaps in a last-ditch, stress-induced bid to procreate before dying.
Over the course of our non-summer, two of the unripe plums gave up the ghost, falling to the ground like little green bogies. The third, however, stayed put. And grew. And changed colour.
Yesterday afternoon, during one of the brief lulls in torrential rain, I noticed that the sole plum was ripe almost to bursting. In fact small insects had begun to feast upon its flesh. So I picked it, and cleaned it, and then ate it.
Despite being made almost entirely of essence of Maine Coon Cat, it tasted surprisingly good.
don't these things more normally come in pairs?
Comments
Great tribute James.
And I don't think plumbs come in pears, that would be unwholesome and deviant.