Thursday, March 25, 2010

Lessons learned while planting the orchard

Today we learned the valuable lesson of keeping things in order and sticking to the schedule.

We decided to hurry and get the trees in the ground today due to a light rainstorm predicted for the next few days. We had the extra hands to help this week during spring break, and everything seemed perfect for the effort.

Unfortunately we forgot one detail.... we had not yet put in place the pasture fence that isolates the horses from the orchard. Samson, being the curious horse that he is, decided to check out the activities. Apparently the lightly flowering trees looked just too tasty to ignore, and he started munching on the top of a small pear tree.

Fortunately Kim arrived home from work just at that moment so she was able to walk Samson and Callie to the barn and saved the trees. There they will stay until we get the pasture fence in place.

In the future, we really need to stick to the schedule to avoid surprises!

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