The valley is filled with smoke this morning, making it difficult for me to do what I need to do. Even masked up and trying to work quickly doesn't stop it from triggering my mast cells to activate but I was able to pull a nice haul of carrots before I was forced to give …
Lately I've been complaining that the Lodi apples were prematurely falling from the tree, thinking they were just too heavy for the still-young branches but it turns out... they are ready to harvest! 😆 Kind of like the onions, some of which were going to bolt if I didn't pull them... Apparently Lodis are an …
I had two choices when it came to what to do with those five apples we harvested. You know, the ones the thieving squirrels so graciously left us? 🤨 Yeah, those ones. We could have just eaten them whole, which would have been the healthier choice, but gosh darn it, we planted that tree with …
We finally picked the apples from our apple tree a minute ago, or what was left of them. What should have been at least a dozen (the tree is still young) whittled down to just FIVE apples by the time they were ready to pick. Five. I think the squirrel across the street was stealing …
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