The Hogsty

Morning everybody . . .

19° and the flag is still.

When I got this WH replaced the plumbing company told me about the tankless kind but being there is only a 1/2 inch supply gas line coming in to feed the heater there isn't enough volume of gas to supply the heater and the tankless WH. I sure wish there had been a larger line.

I really loved the fruit you could get in Sacatomatoes, there were avocados, figs and citrus fruits. I had planted two Pluot trees in the back, one was the kind that appears dark green and somewhat bruised looking with a dark purple interior flesh and the other was a yellow fleshed one that I needed for cross pollination. Then there was a three way grafted cherry tree, the birds will not leave a cherry tree alone. So I had to use a bird net over it to keep them out, one day I found a yellow beaked magpie had got inside and it was quite the panic trying to get out when I went to release it. One year the cherry was really in full blossom and then we had a freak hail storm come through and I thought that was it for any cherries that year as the hail ripped all the blossoms off, but it was the biggest crop of cherries we ever got off it.

When I lived in Washington State I had an orchard with apple, cherry and cherry plum trees. The crows loved the cherry plums. The robins and blue jays went for the cherries. That left the apples for me. I had one strange type of apple called a Buckely Giant. A wrinkled, light green baseball size fruit, with a crisp tart flavor. Now I pick from the super market choices.
55-71 and sun today.

Morning. 34 degrees. Mostly overcast but the sun is peaking through here and there. Air moveing but not excessively.

We have a couple of different kinds of wild plums and a couple of apple trees in the yard. Roy enjoys the plums,.They're about the size of cherries and mostly skin and pit, so they're more trouble than they're worth. The apples are good. When I pick up the windfall and take them out to my son's ranch, there are some happy equines.