If you think that fruit just grows on trees then you are 100% wrong! There is a lot of work that goes into growing good quality fruit. I know. Today I walked around and sprayed all our fruit trees to protect them against insects and fungus. We have various apple trees, peach trees, pear trees, plum trees and cherry trees.
Now if we were still a commercial operation we would have a tractor and a mechanical sprayer, but we are not. We are a small family of two with an acre of land with 35 fruit trees and grapes. What does this mean? It means that you use a hand held, hand pumped sprayer and that you carry it all the time you are spraying. I will tell you that 2 gallons gets pretty heavy!
After the back breaking work of digging the vegetable garden I thought I was pretty much off the hook for any more heavy work for the rest of the year. How wrong I was.
I do not say this often, but I miss all the work that Hubby does around here.
Shhhhh! Don’t tell him I told you that because he will never let me live that down. I am always complaining about how much I do and how he doesn’t do anything. I tell him that if he worked half as hard as I did he might actually appreciate me a little more. So it’s quite a shock to find myself in this position.
The thing is, he actually enjoys doing all the spraying and pruning and stuff to the trees. He thinks it’s relaxing. Ha! It’s not what I think is relaxing.
I think sitting by a pool of warm swimmable water, eating a frozen “Milky Way” candy bar is relaxing. Not spraying a bunch of fruit trees and sweating and getting all yicky.
No the water and the candy bar thing sound ever so much better!
What a great shot of Miss. Greta and her ball
What a great picture! Now you have made me hungry for a frozen Milky Way bar!!!! Darn you 🙂 Hopefully Hubbys is up and moving again soon so he can do that work outside 🙂
mmm, Surf Drive was the best!
Cute cute Greta shot!!
Sounds like a lot of work keeping up all the fruit trees, never thought about that!
Greta looks so precious! I won’t tell your secret about Hubby doing a lot of work.
Greta is such a doll. I’m with you on the Milky Way’s and pool…Spraying fruit trees is NOT even close to my idea of relaxing…nopey. Glad he’s doing better
Hi Mom,
Hope today is a more relaxing day for you!
Love,
Mandy
It looks like you had good weather for spraying. Today it is raining again. I cleaned out a few things for the tag sale at church.
It is good you had Miss Greta to help you out. Send the candy bar my way, would ya?
I love that picture of Greta………we have a little wire in our future, too! The end of July, little Louie will join our family!
Lovely picture, your dog is a cutie! That is a lot of work with your fruit trees…but otherwise you couldn’t eat the fruit, that happens with our peach tree and a pear tree. No treatment and you can’t eat them…Have a happy day.