Awesome Work....

Wow, that basket-on-a-pole tool is way more sophisticated than throwing your rubber shoes at them pears. I'll tell the wise old man about it.

That's a lot of pears! I should make some yummy 😋 Pear Chutney 💝 

Yah!!!

An outdoor adventure, fresh friggin pears and pear sauce?  That sounds like a day well spent. I like pears so much more than apples and pear sauce sounds amazing. 

So good and congrats on another great post!

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@planttoplanks - I enjoyed reading your post about the family time with the pear picking and peeling.  A monotonous job made enjoyable by working together with family.  And the benefit of the fresh organic fruit.  Pears are no where near the top of favorites list - in fact they would be nowhere to be seen on a "favorites" list, lol.  I got sick one time in kindergarten on a school lunch menu item of canned pears and I've never gotten over the aversion even though my mind knows that fresh pairs or home processed pears would be much better. 

I do love going someplace and helping, especially family.  Unfortunately, my mother has this habit of stopping everything she is doing to "visit".  Drives me crazy.  I go to help her and she won't allow it.  At first, I thought it was me, but turns out it happens to both of my daughters too!  

I am loving the pears.  I haven't been able to get any this year.  They all seem to be grabbed up at the store before I get there.  I tried to find some at the Farmer's Market and missed the Pear Guy by five minutes!  Oh, well.  I will sit and drool over your photos instead.

Thanks so much for sharing.  You are always so happy and willing to show us the positive side of life.
Ren

Bonding time with family doing a monotonous task makes the job easier, and memorable when you look back on those days. We do not grow pears but we have imported ones. But I don't think they taste near the fresh ones.

I enjoyed reading this post, feeling the warmth of love in each and every line. 💕

Pear trees can be so productive - and they take less care than apples because they do better when they are not pruned. Those look like great pears! That tough skin keeps a lot of tiny pests at bay, so the tradeoff is worth it. When fruit falls to the ground, I like to think about how the tree's deep roots are bringing up all kinds of nutrients and putting it into the fruit. When the fruit rots, it's providing those nutrients to the top soil. So it's all beneficial, in its own way. Enjoy your pears and other autumn harvests! Yay for autumn!

I have seen many times mistreat the fruit trees in my area, with something worse than some tennis, it seems a caress for our trees that tired to take them from their branches, I with so many pears, I would dehydrate them and use them as a snack.

How nice to have an evening with family and pick fruit as a family too. These are great memories in the making! I enjoyed your post, thank you for sharing!

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Thats an interesting tool for picking pears back when I used to work in a gardens and pear picking was one of the jobs we were using ladders using a tool like that would have been handy 

I love the connection to family that food brings! 

What a beautiful harvest. I'm with you there - from garden to plate production lines always remind me of our connection to the earth and to family. It's definitely a mindful activity and you feel so good doing it, even if it's back breaking!!! That contraption for picking pears off the higher branches looks cool!

Hmm... I'm thinking baked pears with vegan fetta and walnuts... yummmm.... 

> I need to just stop and appreciate those fleeting moments because we won't always have them

Indeed!!!

I love the harvesting fruits fresh from the trees. I spent a summer with my dad in the Okanagan getting in on the harvest season for so many fruits. I have a hard time seeing the fruit not being used and just falling to the ground! If I am not going to use all my fruit I do my best to offer it to others, sharing the abundance of nature. I often do harvesting with my daughter-in-law and it is so much more enjoyable than doing it alone!
Berry picking is another harvest that I find rather contemplative, quietly picking away taking in the different sounds and smells of nature!
Thanks for sharing and enjoy that wonderful bunch of pears - H-m-m maybe try some lettuce pear mint smoothies!

That's nice thing to pick pear or any fruit from long trees. We don't have anything here in the market. I got the idea, maybe gonna DIY some. :)
That's surely a very productive day. 

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I grew up on a farm and we had pear trees that produced what are called sickle pears.  They are small, bu they were the best pears I've ever eaten.  I always look for them in stores, but they are hard to find.  We had cherry trees also, and you're right - it is awesome to have nature's foods available just for the picking!

What a great way to spend weekend time, Katie.  This has been sitting open since yesterday, and I got sidetracked halfway through, so I am particularly glat @jaynie selected this as today's rally upvote.  Of course, as I was reading, a few things went through my head:

> Picking any kind of fruit or vegetables gives you a much better appreciation for how hard farmers have to work to bring us the shiny produce at the market or grocery store.

And I wish people did because then they'd appreciate not just the food but the farmers, too.  Farmer bashing really angers me....

>they didn't have all the pre-mixed and boxed items

This is how I grew up, too.  It's also why I prefer to make most meals from scratch which, I know, astounds people.  I am pretty selective about the ready-made things that I use....

>Now I have one more memory with another mama I hold dear. There is something very meditative in doing such a monotonous task, as well, that's good for the soul.

I agree.  And for bonding.

This made me smile on a sad Tuesday morning as I pass time before going to the funeral of one of our valley's patriarchs.  He was 93 and a fruit, grape and flower farmer.  A real character.

Good Tuesday to you, Katie.

What a great bounty of goodies @plantstoplanks. 
My Mom, God bless her soul, was a canning machine. Every year she would stuff the cupboards with peaches, pears, apple sauce, jellies, sauces, and apple pies.
Everything was prepaired and sealed in mason jars. As with your mother in-law, this was done to save money. We would literally be able to enjoy most of what she canned, from one year to the next. 
As a kid growing up, I really never took much interest in her efforts, but now I wish she was still around so that I could enjoy  this activity with her.
My children still rave about her apple jelly and have been on my case to make some. I have never tried making any jellies, and have a funny feeling I would not be able to duplicate her efforts. 
Great post, and fond memories to boot.

The size of the fruit is much larger than we see, what a lovely bounty to keep bottled for the winter months.

Lovely plot with organic fruit to enjoy along with the family @plantstoplanks made me think back to an avocado tree we used to fish out the fruit with the pool cleaner bag at the end of a long pole.