Today, we thought we might get everything planted. Ho, ho! Were were wrong! But we did manage about half the trees and the potatoes. The apple trees and the other half of the bare roots will have to wait until tomorrow.
It was wonderful to work until we dropped. For Dan especially, since he's trapped in a chair Monday through Friday. I'm pretty sure that if we lived in the city without all this acreage to keep up, he would go flat like a beer forgotten on the counter. Not that I know what that's like. But to work outside together building what will be our legacy for generations to come ... I can do that.
Speaking of beer, Dan and I have rediscovered cider. Dan summed it up well tonight as we sat comatose in front of the T.V., Woodchucks in hand. He said, "I like beer. But when there's a cider in my hand, I forget all about beer."
We will have to wait a few years until our trees will bear enough for cider, but we won't have to wait long for our HOPS! You read that right. Dan ordered a hops vine for us to plant. So watch your favorite blog for our beer making experiments this fall.
In the meantime, satiate yourself with this lovely photographs of our day;
This one's of Dan separating some of the bare root trees. We bought some sugar maples, silver maples, american linden, and cottonwoods.
And Ana "helping".
My favorite: Tick patrol.
3 comments:
My friends want to know what kind of hops. I think it's cool that you're going to be brewing your own beer from the ground up! Do you have your own barley, too? Or are you going to get that locally?
I think we're just going to do hops. We would only need barley if we were doing a different kind of beer than we're thinking. And the name of the beer we're going to do is called "hops only, because that's all we have"
I still think Dan is a tad nuts for trying this without even doing a beer kit first.
Dan, what kind of hops?
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