I’ve picked and canned all the apricots I could ever need or want
I gave jars of rich lush jam away and
And still, I have apricots!
They are way up there in the top of the tree, where I can’t reach.
the ground is rather dappled with a rich golden glow 🙂
Nightly we have visitors. Their bright chitter, chatter wakes us up as they feast on the summer globes of goodness
So I sat up a game camera just so we could see
The exhilaration as the furry creatures feast
This delightful smile says it all!
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
Life on a Colorado Farm 
Hurray, a good apricot year! I’m so glad the blossoms survived the bad weather earlier in the year. Wish I was close enough to come and gather windfalls…
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I wish you did too. I still have branches and branches of the lushes fruit.
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… and apricot jam is my favourite 😦
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That is one happy raccoon!
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He/She sure is!
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I LOVE apricots. If I were there, I’d help you “deal” with them!
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I wish I could send you boxes of them!
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I’m glad you had a good crop of apricots, but I imagine the raccoons are even happier. You got some wonderful pictures with your game camera.
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That smile on that little face is just darling!
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We live in a city but our cameras occasionally pick up a raccoon. They are so cute.
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They are cute. And mean. I try to stay away from them.
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very cool
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I think so
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Lucky critters! The apricots were amazing this year. Do they bother your hummer feeders at night?
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So far, knock on wood, they haven’t
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Nothing tastes as sweet as apricots off your own tree. I miss that. It’s nice you have enough to share with the wildlife. I’m sure they appreciate your generosity as well. Makes me so happy.
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That huge smile on that raccoons face so agrees with you!
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You got apricots this year! Yay! But the trash pandas…ugh. *LOL*
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LOL!
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All the kids I grew up with who enjoy gardening grow at least one apricot tree, but almost none of us like apricots! It is just tradition. During our time, the last remnants of the formerly vast orchards were being abandoned and removed, so there were WAY too many apricots. Now there are none outside of those in our own gardens.
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At least there are those. I dislike picking up all the windfalls.
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I hated it when I was a kid, but I miss it now. (I still don’t want to eat them.)
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Finally you got a bumper crop!!! yeah!!
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YES! An over-the-top crop!
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He is sure is loving that fruit Linda … 🙂
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That smile is HUGE!!! LOL
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Charlee: “Dennis told us we used to have apricot trees, but they died.”
Chaplin: “The raccoons must have been very disappointed when that happened.”
Charlee: “We still have a peach tree but we haven’t seen any raccoons taking them. Just rats.”
Lulu: “Rats? Where?!?!?”
Charlee: “Settle down, Lulu, you’ll never catch them.”
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RATS!!!? WOW! I’ve never seen a rat. I wonder if Mom would show me one sometime? Boomer
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