This afternoon I took my annual trek out to the osage orange trees to harvest some "oranges" for my fall decorations. This year was fun, because instead of hiking, I rode Lily out there. This was much faster than walking. I just experienced one small challenge to this year's harvest; I learned that not only do deer like the flavor of osage orange fruit, Lily likes them too. She "told" me that if I wanted to make her carry them home (they each weigh about a pound) I needed to share one with her. In her opinion, they taste good but they are little hard to bite into and very chewy. She decided that she preferred the molasses cookie I gave her when we got back home to the barn. I was able to stuff 15 osage oranges into my assorted saddle bags; five for my friend, Karen; five for a science teacher at the high school; and five for me.
If you want to learn more about osage oranges, read my blog post for September 8, 2013 entitled "Weird and wonderful."
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