The weather being so nice has allowed us to do more outdoor things.

We have been putting half the chickens in the garden every day. A friend gave us this chicken tractor and it is wonderful. Michael will make another at some point.

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The chickens have been laying a lot of eggs. 132 eggs so far this month.

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Joshua has been able to let his bunnies out as well.

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Tuesday, the mama deer and her two babies were back in the lower acreage. They sure have grown a lot!

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Nicholas was anxious to mow that grass. Can’t do it when the mower has a flat tire. Emergency repairs are a specialty of Michael.

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We pruned our first two apples trees. The boys and I bought Michael a safe ladder to use. Better to be safe than in the hospital.

Here is the Early Transparent tree before we got to it…

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Here is Michael doing some pruning.

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And here is it when we were done.

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This is a Gravenstein Apple tree.

Before pruning (what a mess)

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After our pruning….less mess.

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Last but not least my wonderful hubby bought me a holder for my pruners. The word FELCO and the number 919 were the only things on the holder.

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He used his solder iron to make it pretty for me. He’s so sweet.

So, I’m mentally preparing for not a lot of fruit this year and secretly hoping for lots of fruit. It will take a few years to get these trees in shape and even longer if we choose to graft different fruit into the existing root stock.

Thanx for following on this mid-life crisis journey of ours.

Karen