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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

On Apr 26, 2008, at 4:58 PM, Lisa K.V. Perry wrote:

> You could thin out the fruit, now is a good time when they are olive  
> size.
> Looks like we might have a good year this year as well, though we're  
> getting
> hail as I speak. The large Stayman winesap apple was just starting  
> to drop
> petals from blossoms today, hopefully it's well pollinated and  
> 'safe' by
> now.
>
> Hurray for fruit, hurray for escaping frost and hurray for a busy  
> canning
> season ahead. Looks like we'll have plenty to share.

Well, I hope all of our fruits make it through, but right now we have  
34 degrees predicted for Monday morning and when one lives down in a  
hollow one knows that one just might see a couple degrees less than  
predicted. And it has been my observation that my weather often  
predicts by a day or two what a lot of you get.

Meanwhile yesterday, I was halfway through planting three new apples  
when a squall came through and dumped a half inch of rain in about ten  
minutes. So then I got to go out and finish the job in pure mucky,  
sticky clayey mud. They trees will make it only if they can survive  
several days of being essentially drowned.