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Over the years, we've always compared our family life to a wagon train heading west. Just as everyone had to do his part to get to Oregon years ago, so everyone in our family must do his/her part to make our journey through life successful. If somebody climbs in the wagon and lets the others do the work, we just don't make any progress. We all have to pull our weight and work together. Along the trail we find lots of pebbles that make for a smooth ride and some bigger rocks that jar us a little; we hit the occasional pothole that can slow us down. But if we purpose to search diligently, there are countless gold nuggets and precious gemstones along the way as well. This journal is an attempt to preserve some of those precious moments for our children, and our children's children, as together we travel this trail called life.

Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore. Psalm 16:11


Monday, September 8, 2014

9-8-14 The Good, The Bad, The Ugly

For the record.

First the good - - - -

GrandGala look good, smell good, taste good.

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Fuji look good, smell good. They’re pretty tart yet, but in a month or so they’ll be tasting pretty fine, I’m thinking.

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Not sure why I didn’t take px of Yellow & Red Delicious, but they’re coming along just fine too.

Now for the bad - - - -

Nothing new here, I just wanted a picture for the record. Maybe a dozen peaches this year: mostly empty trees.

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And - - the ugly - - - -

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Yeah.

These two formerly gorgeous RedHaven trees didn’t survive the harsh winter. These are slated to be cut down soon. I don’t think I can watch.

Here’s the history. For five years we pruned them and mowed around them. The next year we had a sprinkling of peaches, a good start. The next two years we had late frosts which killed all the buds: nothing. 2013 was great. Maybe five bushels each? More? Ten maybe? Loaded. Delicious.  Remember, the one closest actually broke because we didn’t prop it good enough; we lost about three bushels from that deal but the rest still finished out beautifully.

Lesson: IL is hard on peach trees. If you’re going to try peach trees, plant them on the highest possible plane. We won’t re-plant peach trees here, but we’ve started a nice bunch south of the house which is actually higher ground than this; hopefully we won’t lose anymore peach trees even if we have another harsh winter like last.

That’s it!

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