We have pears!

Actually, we've had pears for a while.  Having never grown any fruit of any kind, we weren't sure when we needed to harvest the pears.  So we'd put it off for quite a while.

Well, this morning Wifey grabbed me and said, "Let's go check out one of those pears!"  So we did.

We picked the largest of the pears (it was a big one) and shared it.  It seemed a little underripe (from a hardness standpoint), but still had some nice pear flavor to it.  I've certainly had less flavorful pears from the grocery store.  We enjoyed it.  And so did The Bear whom had a couple of small nibbles.

And it's just occurred to me that this is the first fruit we've had from one of our new fruit trees since the apples didn't make it past the deer this spring.  How cool!