I'm hoping that we all get more than one paw paw, that was just the worst case scenario, since I haven't managed to grow one yet. They were planted before I got here, and I've pulled the weeds back nearly every year now for 9 years, but I don't consider the trees or their fruit to be mine. The neighbors win even if they never help, but my plan is that next year some might remember, and possibly lend a hand. Even after I wrote this, someone on a tractor came and pushed away the piles of brush that I'd cleared, so it has begun!