Monday evening Dad sprayed fruit trees. So far we've not seen many beetles and we're hoping it stays that way. We're pretty convinced that our lack of apples the past couple years has been at least partly because the trees have suffered so much beetle damage. I'm no horticulturist, but common sense says if a tree is struggling to stay alive with half its leaves decimated, it's not going to set much fruit for next year. Maybe, maybe not? At any rate, we're doing our best to keep beetles away this year, and so far we've been pretty successful; often though it's mid-July when they show up, so....
time will tell.
Beautiful evening.
Tuesday morning I sauced up my fine collection of apples. I picked a five gallon bucket total from all four trees; these were a few of the ones I saved. A pretty sorry looking lot, they were; but they were the best to be found!
In contrast: this would be a normal specimen on a normal pre-beetle year. There were maybe a dozen or less this year.
Total harvest: about two quarts of sauce. Which was delicious!
A few Baer cubs spent the morning with us.
Jewel and I took a quick trip to the lake while Josh made these amazing cookies.
Auggie meets hoverboard.
Wednesday was another beautiful patio morning.
A few drizzles early...
then a tornado warning sent us to the basement for awhile.
No tornado, thankfully, but lots of rain. With the early afternoon's .4" and the later afternoon's 2.6", we finished the day with a nice even 3". That's a nice rain during a dry July, even if other places did get 6", 7", and 9"!
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