Chores

A couple of days ago I spoke of my pruning chores.  The Frau and I share this task every winter/spring.  Walking up and back the rows of trees, singling-out the valuable oaks and taking a limb from here or there.  The idea is to eventually get a nice straight trunk that is free of defects.  Fifty years from now someone is going to harvest these trees for veneer or custom saw boards and they'll say - Whoever planted and nurtured these oaks sure did a terrific job of it.

Trail camera caught me starting out on a row with the blonde Lab frolicking in the puddles.

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If you look closely you can see the piece of fluorescent flagging I tied to a branch where I had previously left-off.