Day 13: I have long held with the motto, "Learn something new every day," however this particular lesson was several years in the making. Today, I discovered one last kiwi fruit hanging on the vine thanks to the fact that most of the leaves have dropped. I had found a stray berry about ten days ago, bringing my total year's harvest up to seven, but this eighth one was a bonus in many ways. First of all, it was the biggest and sweetest, but more important was learning that the fruit remains on the vine even after a light frost. Leaf-fall makes it easier to find and, as is also the case with grapes, a touch of Jack Frost's paintbrush set the sugar. I'm smarter now than I was when I went to bed last night having had a fine lesson in horticulture from the greatest teacher of all, Mother Nature.
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