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chamookman:
Prayers sent BJ ! Bob
M2A:
Great looking bow there BJ. Sure hope you get some good news real soon on all thats going down.
Finished up with the saw work in the orchard about 2 weeks ago, while the fellas cutting the fine stuff out finished up last week. Been busy here last week or so. took a pic of some red delicious on Friday.
IMG_4542 by Mike Allridge, on Flickr
Today they are about in full bloom
IMG_4544 by Mike Allridge, on Flickr
IMG_4546 by Mike Allridge, on Flickr
Had to work out the details on timing last week to get hives moved in, The bee keeper brought in 12 last night for the orchard and another 10 or so this morning for some berry crops. Seem to be some good active hives.
Spent most of the morning riding around checking on things. Best bloom I have seen in several years, so far. they are talking low 30's several nights this week, with any luck there will be some cloud cover and keep things just warm enough that no damage occurs. Would not be a normal year if you didnt have one threat of frost during bloom. lol
Here's some pictures of some 4 year old Gala, high density planting. Wires keep the trees from getting pulled over from the fruit load. Top wire is about 7 ft off the ground. Still about 2 years from a full crop on these trees but they have nice size this year and should be able to fill some bins this fall.
IMG_4547 by Mike Allridge, on Flickr
IMG_4551 by Mike Allridge, on Flickr
Took that last picture because you can see all the pollen that bee has on its back legs. If I recall it was a wild mason bee, not a honey bee. Kinda hard to tell in pic. Going to be a busy few weeks coming up then things should slow down a bit, for me anyway. :D
Mike
bjrogg:
Thanks for the prayers and the pictures Mike. I’ve been thinking about you and your sweet corn.
Our weather has still been cold although we had a warm spell last weekend. It’s supposed to snow again the next couple of days. Lows in the mid 20’s for the next three nights. We’re supposed to have sunshine till the weekend and then several days of rain again next week.
There are a few fields planted to Sugar beets now, but not very many. It got dry enough we probably had two days we could have planted. It snowed the day after both of them
No blossoms here yet. At lest I don’t think any. I have still been running to doctors and veterinary every day. Really haven’t seen my apple trees lately.
Susie isn’t 100% yet, but she’s probably 92%. She still has been having dizzy spells and very low energy which is unusual for her. Yesterday she seemed to get her balance back. She had eye doctor appointment with specialist in City. I didn’t want her driving so I took her. She had trouble with her eyes from sugar diabetes and the specialist had to fix them up . It’s been a year long process and she got a very good report on her progress.
Zoey still hasn’t eaten anything in 6 days. Took her back to veterinary again yesterday afternoon. They took X-rays and good news no foreign objects in her system. She still has been vomiting and diarrhea. She has been drinking some water.
The vet wanted to keep her over night. Give her some different medicine for her stomach and take
x-rays again this morning. She is a sick doggie right now.
That isn’t helping my wife and my wife being sick isn’t helping Zoey either. That little dog, sick as she was sat and waited for my wife to come home from hospital. She knows when something is up. When Susie got home her little tail was really wagging. Even though she was still really sick. I’m hoping they both have a good day today.
I really don’t know what has been happening on our farm. My phone has been making trouble and doesn’t work when I go to City. This 5g tower stuff makes it almost useless when I leave our area.
I know my nephew was trying to get the new sprayer to work and having trouble. No surprise there. All this stuff is so complex. It takes awhile to get everything calibrated and figured out. He text me last night that he thinks he has it ready now. Now we need some good weather. Which seems to be in short supply. Maybe we can get good enough weather. It’s definitely not early anymore and to late to screw up. If we can get dirt dry enough to plant beets we will be going at the beets. Still way to cold for the corn, but we want to get the beets in the ground.
Thanks so much everyone who has said a prayer. It means so much to us.
Bob I was thinking of you everyday last week when I drove to Port Huron hospital. The boats were out on the big lake fishing from Port Sanilac all the way south. Maybe you were in one of them? Thanks for the prayers
Bjrogg
PS going to work now. Hopefully I can get this back to a farming thread again.
BrianS:
Bjrogg,
Prayers sent for your wife.
brian
bjrogg:
Thanks Brian much appreciated.
Well I was hoping we wouldn’t get any more precipitation but we’re getting rain switching to snow.
It’s yuck.
My nephew is moving into my dads house. There was a table there my grandpa built with six chairs he built. My dad sat around this table with his siblings growing up. My now past uncle built another one copying off grandpa’s original. I now have both of them together in my man cave.
It’s kinda cool having these tables and chairs. They have a lot of family history and they look pretty nice here. They both have extensions if I really have a crowd.
Almost looks like they belong here.
Bjrogg
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