Should someone else buy it …
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Spring must be coming, spring peepers going strong today, first time this year.
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the fire pond across the streets still frozen solid.
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Almost. March and April are the rainy months, as we have100+ degree weather for 5-6 months. Our rivers floor, cars float under bridges, it is amazing. France is filled with calm but also extremes! 5 days of rain this week, four days of rain next week. Xxoo
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@steveb4 I would do everything I could to get that acre for 2000 dollars. Having a buffer next to your land that you have all your fruit plants on and hard work invested is priceless to me. At that price someone will probably buy it and who knows what they will do on it.
Also, a 1/2 acre pond would be lovely. I have one and it is my favorite place on our property. It is not deep so I just stocked it with some catfish. They overwinter here fine, as the water does not freeze all the way to the bottom. I could eat them, but I feed them and they have sort of become pets. Very peaceful with the bullfrogs, turtles, multitudes of dragon flies, wild ducks that come around at intervals, and tons of other wildlife. It was just a smaller mud hole when we bought the land, and I had an excavating company come dig it out a bit during a bad drought when most of it dried up. I can’t remember what it cost, but I don’t think it was excessive, as we did not have a lot of disposable cash at the time.
The dogwoods and cranberry highbush viburnums sound lovely and there must be some other edible fruits that like somewhat wet soil? If you are like me, you will probably spend the 2 thousand on something else that won’t be nearly as beautiful, peaceful, useful and permanent as that acre of land. After all, as they say, they are not making any more of it.
Sandra
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Ya, the peepers surprise me every year. My reed canary grass swamp is still frozen solid. The sedge grass sections of marsh are thawing out, but just a few inches down there’s still ice.
A guy I communicate with in VT had peepers a couple weeks ago. That seemed super early
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we are about 2 weeks early right now so should be hearing them in the next few weeks. you guys convinced me. I’ll go talk to the landowner. likely have the money to buy it outright next month. not sure the about the technicalities of it but i will at least start the ball rolling.
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Yes, go for it.
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Cold and windy today. Not a good day for a wig. Trees are way behind last year. One of these days it’s just going to flip and it’ll be summer.
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Walked my orchards this morning. A number of trees at silvertip, a couple nearing green tip. If the weather cooperates I’ll get oil and copper sprayed next week.
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Windy…28mph with gusts close to 50.
Tomorrow supposed to be slightly better
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Close call, the tornado just beyond our back yard but we got hit with baseball size hail storm in NW Omaha… Uh.
Tony
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Already 28° with another 2hrs of cooling to go. Good thing I brought the potted plants in.
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We had a ton of lightning and some pebble size hail last night.
Peach flowers are a no go this year. Not seeing anything pushing. Apricots are blooming but very small number of flowers.
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Spring Thunder
Listen, The wind is still,
And far away in the night —
See! The uplands fill
With a running light.
Open the doors. It is warm;
And where the sky was clear —
Look! The head of a storm
That marches here!
Come under the trembling hedge —
Fast, although you fumble…
There! Did you hear the edge
of winter crumble
- Van Doren, Mark. “Spring Thunder.” Spring Thunder and Other Poems. New York: Seltzer, 1924. All Poetry. 18 Apr 2025 <https://allpoetry.com/Spring-Thunder>.
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Upper 50’s and sunny today. got the dormant oil/ copper on everything that needed it. finished my grafting, fertilized everything and planted 4 seaberries. now to build 3 more 4’ x 12’ raised beds. that’s another day. then i can plant out my potatoes, shallots, potato onions and everbearing onions. need to start my tomatoes and peppers indoors soon also. spring comes so fast here. it’s a race to get everything done outside in a 2-week period from when the snow goes till’ budbreak.
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Tony, is that a picture from your yard? That’s scary. I’m glad everything is all right.
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It snowed a bit this morning. A high of -1 today and a low of -6 tonight.
We’re supposed to move back closer to seasonal temperatures over the weekend.
I’ll probably uncover the strawberries tomorrow, so some sun can touch the soil.
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More rain for another week!
It is so warm, near 70 yesterday, near 60 today. J. Plums are in full bloom. Carmine Jewel suddenly showed treeful of flower buds. Peach’s flower buds are like little peas size. If no more later frost, we should have enough Peaches, apricots, Plums, Pears… looking forward to a fruitful year
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