2009
*light sleet before dawn

2009
*picked up 6 lbs pecan

2008
*Set out asparagus plants (roots) from Brother's homeplace in Texas. Set in southeast-most bed of kitchen garden. Since soil was already amended with compost from Love's work this fall, did not add compost. Dug 12"-wide trench 15" deep, then backfilled to 7". Made 2" mounds 18" apart and set one asparagus plant on each one - six plants in all. Covered each plant with 2" soil, packed lightly by hand. Filled trench with soil. Reserved extra soil to add as trench settles. Watered. Had four plants left over -- toed them into east side of loose compost pile.

2008
*picked up 14 pounds pecans (236 pounds total)
*still have leaf lettuce in cold frame

2008
*picked up 15 pounds of pecans (222 total); tree 2nd from end in mowed area on front row seems to have released its nuts

2008
*rain: 1 2/10"

2008
*picked up 11 pounds of pecans (cumulative total: 207 pounds!); most prolific tree seems to be 2nd from north end on front row (tree with rope swing); southmost tree in mowed area (3rd from end) on front row has largest nuts

2008
*rain: 3/10"

2008
*picked up 11 pounds pecans

2008
*1st 2008-2009 School Snow Day (icy roads & ice pellets on exposed surfaces); 18F

2008
*harvested 34 pounds pecans

2008
*harvested 15 pounds pecans

2008
*7/10" rain

2008
*harvested 17 pounds pecans

2005
*school "snow day"

2008
harvested 5 lbs pecans

2006
*school "snow day"

2008
*spitting snow - slight accumulation of leaves and tree branches

2008
*harvested 8 pounds pecans

2008
* harvested 24 pounds pecans

2008
*harvested 3 pounds of pecans

2008
*harvested 11 pounds of pecans (in shell)

2008
*harvested 3 pounds of pecans, in shell
*planted persimmon seeds in pot. Seeds were gathered from field on the southwest corner of Weir & Salem, and had been through the digestive tract of an animal.
*froze 1 mess of mustard

2008
*finished off "cold frame" with 4 more bales of straw ($5/bale!)

2008
*harvested 11 pounds of pecans (in shell)

2008
*froze 2 batches mustard, per Mother's instructions

2008
*rain: 8/10"

2008
*harvested 17 pounds unshelled pecans

2008
*set out semi-dwarf apple trees: William's Pride, Mollies Delight, Stayman Winesap, & Arkansas Black
*cut back raspberries bushes
*harvested 14 pounds unshelled pecans
*harvested mustard for supper & to freeze
*planted 5 hickory nuts in a pot after soaking 5 days; planted only those that sank; discarded those that floated

2008
*set out semi-dwarf Liberty apple tree; first in west to east line on north side of woodlot

2008
*rain: 7/10"

temperatures: high 76, low 47