29 March 2024

Another week down, there’s no daycare on Fridays leaving me with the baby, it’s nice to spend time with her though I notice with using daycare my baby care muscles are getting weaker. Digging holes and cutting down trees is different than handling a baby, she also grows up so quick that after four days it’s practically a new baby. We went grocery shopping this morning and restocked the fridge. Going to the tree nursery yesterday was a success, I was anticipating the trees to be in pots and that’s why they would take up so much room leading me to need a truck. Turns out the trees are kept in cold storage bare root, that means I’ll be able to pile them up in my van. I’m trying to get the trees in the ground as soon as possible to give them a longer growing season, plus when the owner pulled a tree out to show me I could see the tree starting to bud. I’ve scheduled to pick the trees up next week, until then there is still a lot of prep work to do. The location has been measured and marked, next I’ll have to dig 14 holes, it’ll be fairly quick work with my auger. Then I have to set up drip irrigation to water the trees, I got my first 500 foot roll of ½ inch plastic tubing today. Laying down irrigation feels like home, I’ve done it for the last two places I’ve lived, that makes me think about how the scale of my operation has increased exponentially. I learn through doing, more accurately through making mistakes, what I learned from visiting the tree nursery was that peach trees are to have their main branch cut back to allow air to flow between the branches. There were a couple packets of information on various fruit trees I’m excited to learn from.