strong eagle
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the farmers almanac said it was going to be a wet winter here and so far it has been. the snow has melted instead of evaporated and now it is raining. man it is soupy, the 110 yards we have to the highway. the trees and bushes love it. the black pine grow in the winter here and this year they are getting the moisture to grow very well. maybe we will have another summer of a good wild fruit crop. last summer the wild plums produced for the first time in 10 or so years. they are my favorite beside the wild golden current. my gooseberries grow very well here and are starting to produce well also. they are the only bush i have to spray in the spring. they get a tiny green worm that can strip them of leaves and kill them. a little spray and that takes care of the worms. i like organic but sometimes one has to step out side of that box. 2 years ago i had one chokecherry bush that produced yellow cokecherries and that is very very rare. it goes back to one yellow chokecherry bush found in wyoming up near the montana border. i sent the seed from that tree to oikos tress and bushes back east for they could maybe get them going to share to the rest of the world. the yellow chockcherrys are bigger and more sweet that the blue black reddish ones. ive got several types of wild plums but the trees from the texas wild plum hasnt produced yet. the local and canadian one has. the one thing that really grows well here is my asparagus bed. i take good care of it and we eat alot of asparagus in the spring and early summer. you can see im getting ready for spring. going to have surgery friday and hope that goes well, dont like to be cut on. sorry my post today sounds like a flight of ideas but it is just talk what is going on here. going to make some hot chili chinese paste to dip stir fry in. a pint or quart of the stuff should do for a good while.