christie, I feel your pain and anger! I have hydrated lime in the barn and will spread some today.

What an aggravation. I can't imagine the entire melon being gone. What could do that except a two legged varmint?

The Blacktail Mountains were small, about the size of an average canteloupe (not as big as the Athena Canteloupes that have been at the grocery store lately) so maybe a raccoon or something could carry them off, I don't know. I don't think it was a person, unless they knew how to tell when they're ripe. The Orangeglows are bigger and I think they would've taken those instead.

Nothing more disappeared overnight. Yay!

I also think it unusual that the whole melon was gone.

I checked mine first thing yesterday morning; so far, they are safe and no more rotten ones.

Something is still eating the ripe tomatoes though.