Lynna has been working with Tim Lowery to finish the remaining back fill & final cement work for our front walk. We had to suspend last Fall when things got wet. There should be a delivery of large rock soon & then Tim will get to work.

We couldn't find two varieties of the Apple trees (Criterion & Wealthy)we wanted at any of the local nurseries & they claimed there was no way to order them. This was surprising as the Wealthy is well known with an interesting history and the Criterion continues to win taste tests although its not popular with commercial growers because they bruise easily.

Lynna joined a couple of orchardist web forums and through their help, we found a nursery in New York that sold them. Their web site indicated orders placed after March 1st would be filled the following Spring, since the bare root plants are shipped while dormant. But, New York had record breaking cold weather and a late Spring this year (so much for global warming) and we were notified of shipment last week. Tuesday evening we came home to find my fruit trees on the West porch. This meant I had to prepare the planting sites for 3 bare root trees plus the 3 potted trees we bought last Fall. I finished planting today. I'm nursing a sore back & doubt we will see any fruit this year but the Italian prune plum appears to have blossoms budding out so we might get lucky. Lynna got some pictures while I worked, then she burned some scrap.