I didn't sleep well last night, which is very rare.
T-storms rolled through about 12:30 last night and I had eaten later in the evening then usual.
I finally got settled back down and had many dreams:
I was back at work and got lost in the factory. I didn't know anybody. I wandered around for hours and got assigned to three different committees. I was surprised by the assignments because I wasn't wearing pants and back when I was working, that would have made me unsuitable for working on committees AND been a PPE violation. That may be different now days.
Looking at my emails this morning, I am expecting 25 fruit trees on Wednesday, ten blackberry bushes on Thursday and another fifteen blackberry bushes showing up on Friday.
The ten blackberry bushes expected on Thursday were stuck in a USPS facility in Tennessee for seven day last week. I expect them to be "cooked" and have to sort-out with the nursery how to handle it.
Bonus images
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| Swamp where I was planting Highbush cranberries and Winterberry |
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| More swamp |
I sense a willow orchard in your future?
ReplyDeleteThe Black willow (according to googlens) is blooming right now, what a delightful fragrance!
Inspired by your tales of grafting, the wife (a HS biology teacher) and I were talking yesterday about creating a high school project to plant a small orchard at the school and have students learn to graft and prune to result in multi-variety fruit trees. And the science behind each technique of course. In terms of learning this would be a real-life project that the kids can show off and leave a permanent record of their accomplishment. And the kids can have fresh fruit in the fall. Such activities are rare in modern public-school teaching. But that's how my wife works.
ReplyDeleteGreat idea! The more interaction with the community the better! The kids will really learn a valuable skill, too!
DeleteThat would be a really great thing to do. Our schools sure need more teachers that think and act like that. ken
ReplyDeleteRE: the "cooked" blackberry bushes - I'm increasingly skeptical of ANYONE who uses USPS for shipping anything of either high dollar or time value, and have complained to shippers (Amazon, MidwayUSA, etc.) who default to USPS.
ReplyDeleteGood luck with resolution, which will, of course, lead to higher prices as the shipper(s) absorb all, or part, of the USPS fails.