You'll like this... Last year the wife decided to try growing cantaloupe. Our red brick making soil isn't fit for growing but we turn miracle grow soil and egg shells, tea bags, etc,, into it. It does OK.
She did have 1 cantaloupe that was doing great. I told her, "Looks ripe for the pickin' to me". She replied, "I'll leave it two more days. Pick and slice it Sunday morning". So the next morning we took off fishing early, never glanced at the garden spot. Cleaned a few fish and ate pizza from the freezer that evening. Sunday morning, mouthwatering about a big breakfast including the cantaloupe with grits and gravy and all.
She went out to find some critter had came out of the woods, dragged that melon to the edge where mowing ends and overgrowth starts, and ate it to nearly nothing left but a small piece of rine with ants all over it. My "wise guy" comment, "Told yah it was ready. Din't I toll yah?" LOL