And they are currently in the hospital waiting to see if the removal surgery can be booked for three months from now, or if it has to go right this minute! Not a good time for us to be harbouring a sick child with a fever of 103°F, and occasional vomiting. So I’m struck off the list as far as visitors. I can’t go into a hospital as a potential carrier of my youngest child’s illness. I’ll have to wish my friend the best via text, and telephone. Maybe I’ll try a FaceTime/Facebook Messenger video chat? I’ll give it a go. Nobody’s answering the call, so I’ve left yet another message.
Finally got around to cutting the grass. What little of it that is growing anyway. Mainly the crab grasses, and various types of weeds at this point. It has been terribly dry as of late, so that means I no longer have to cut twice a week like in May. The taps are off, and the trees are definitely suffering. I’m seeing curled leaves, and dropped leaves too. Not a good sign when we still have 11 or so weeks of actual summer left to go. Might be a real dry one this season.
The grapes are looking strong though, I see the early start to a good deal of bunches on the vine. Perhaps the dog chewing through one whole section early on has diverted much needed resources to the rest of the vine, and potential fruiting elements. Nice. The Cherry tree was heavily decked out in fruit this year, and even the apple trees look to be doing gang busters this year too. No strawberries because the dog rolled on the beds and killed them all, well more likely he stressed them and now they’ve missed the fruit generation part of their cycle. Last to go will be the raspberries. Dog chewed them up real good too, so we will have to see how they do later on this summer.
I do really need to buy a step ladder to be able to harvest the higher branches on my cherry trees. I focus so much on the bottom because I cut the grass underneath them that I don’t look at just how tall & wide it has gotten. The big cherry is made up of five different types grafted onto one trunk, but the newest tree is a single type grown from a digested, and passed single seed. The new single type tree is very tall, and also really narrow. Has been growing fairly well these last few years. The raccoons took out a bunch of smaller low lying branches by climbing on it while it was really young. I do see bare spot on the trunk from where that happened.
No matter. I shall see about scheduling a meet up with my friend once he’s out, and prior to his big surgery. Have a good catch up over a cold beverage, or a hot meal someplace with clean cutlery, and matching dishes. But I digress.
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