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Thursday, December 11, 2025

Pruning notes, mice and a Christmas toy idea

 

A pear tree after pruning on the left. An unpruned apple tree on the right.

I grafted four branches last spring into the pear tree and this year I pruned out nearly all of the growth that was NOT from those grafts.

The down-sized bucket-o-mice.

It is in a pole-barn that is cat-proof but not mouse proof. I wanted to prove that the smaller size could still work and that the mice could not hop out.

The peanut butter bait flaked off in the cold weather. I will spread the peanut butter on a strip of gauze and wrap that around spinner-bottle.

A new toy for Quicksilver

Quicksilver really likes Grandma's "Bissell".

She will be getting her very own this Christmas.

That is a lot of money for a 3 year-old's toy but I am willing to spend extra for tools that get used.
 

2 comments:

  1. Looks like your grafts took pretty well!

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  2. My sister got a little pink one of those back in the 1960's. She grew up and away from it, but my mother did not. She kept it for "little clean ups" til the end.
    Good choice.
    Milton

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