A funny story I’d like to share regarding my quest to find low cost  free lemons has ended in my neighborhood.

I was coming downstairs yesterday and I stopped mid tread as something caught my eye….fallen lemons in next doors yard!

Now you might think so what? BUT, these people let them rot on the ground with no respect to the beauty or versatility of this glorious yellow citrus fruit. It isn’t even their tree, they get them from the overhanging neighbors tree…how lucky is that?

I digress, the story, okay, so last summer I saw about 2 dozen just laying in their yard ,and so I knew the previous tenants of this house worked office hours, and the lemons had been there for DAYS. I went out into the back yard which has a shared fence and started playing ball with the kids ( No,you are right, I hate playing ball with the kids). I threw the ball a little too high and it went over the neighbors’ fence, oops!

I ran around and into their yard, scooped up as many lemons and launched them over the fence, into my yard and of course, retrieved the ball last.

The new tenants are home at all odd hours and so are thwarting my pursuit of ‘free’ lemons.

Yes , it would be easy to just go ask for them, but that would make me look weird, and I can’t have that!!