Quince, floating row covers, Israel-Iran and Social Media

I walked around the Eaton Rapids orchard and every quince bush has fire blight strikes on them with Tashkent and Ekmek having the most strikes. So does an Asian pear that I grafted with a twig that I took from a tree growing beside Bellevue Highway. I also see where the woodchucks have been climbing the Illinois Everbearing Mulberry growing in that orchard.

I had planned to cut them all down today but was mugged by a nap.

I have other IEM trees and this tree towers over its dwarf fruit-tree neighbors and shades them.

With regard to the fire blight...time to get rid of the Typhoid Marys.

Row covers

Something came through and browsed my row of bush green beans the day before yesterday. My perimeter fence is leaky and it was much faster to throw a floating row cover over the row of beans than to fix all of the issues with the fence.

Fixing the fence is still on the list of things to do, but now I have some breathing room.

This is my first experience with floating row covers. 

Israel-Iran

The photos I saw indicated a great deal of intelligence and precision. There were images of blocks of apartments with a single apartment cratered with a guided munition. They knew to the hour where high-level targets would be to within 10 meters.

The sobering thing is that the US Government has the same information on every one of us. That is why it is imperative that we cut back on the size and overreach of the government.

I was surprised when I went into town at 6:00 to fill my gas tank. The gas stations were empty and the price of gas was still $2.95 a gallon. 

Social Media security

A couple who attends the same church we do had their house broken into while they were on vacation. My assumption is that they posted pictures of the beach while they were away and one of their 721 friends decided to take advantage of the absence.