I have away $500 in Persimmons and all I got...

Is this thanks you letter/picture. No, seriously. We have a huge Hachiya persimmon tree in our yard. Every year it produces way more than we can possibly consume so we end up picking them and giving them away. This year's take was probably about 200 persimmons. When I looked on safeway.com at the time they were going for $2.49 each. EACH!. It amazes at how much interest there is in them. For years there was a family around the block that would come back every year even before I picked them to harvest them for themselves. Last year I posted a message to the local "freecycle" alias and have had people save my email address and contact me again this year to ask about them. I also had freeloaders whine that I should have parceled out portions to leave more for others. Whatever. Actually its not quite true that the drawing is the only thing we got. There's always a few persimmons out of the reach of my picker that I have to leave on the tree. Some folks offered to buy them until we explained we can't get to them. Not to worry, they asked if they could come back with ladders and their own picker, which they did. And in return they gave us a box of Trader Joe's Truffles, they are actually pretty good. I expect we'll see them again next year.

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