The #Orchard #pathoftotality took three nights of freezing temps well into bloom and a bit into fruitset. Some losses. Brown flowers. But #hornfaced #Bees and #honeybees are working the #Anjou #pear +McCoun, Glacier, NY and Fuji #Apples so... C. #PA #fruit is on track.
12:42 PM - Apr 26, 2024
The #Orchard #pathoftotality post bloom period examines fruit sets at the base of the fading flowers. I will remove some and keep others. Don't want young trees can be harmed long term by being overfruited short term. Her are #bartlettpears fruit sets plus #Ranier #Cherry in peak flower today.
08:58 AM - Apr 24, 2024
The #orchard #PathofTotality took a hit. 2 nights of freezing conditions in C. #PA a 3rd possible Thursday. Lost some early fruit sets and some blossoms. But...in order...MacCoun, Glacier, New York (brown is frost damage) and Fuji Apples blossoming today. Plums are done. Rainier Cherry starting.
11:42 AM - Apr 23, 2024
Today is #earthday in the US. But on Earth isn't it #earthdayeveryday ? It should be. The Solar Panels are cranking today....but it's been cold here in C. #PA . Spent hours trying to protect early garden plants from last night's late freeze. Lost some early #Orchard fruit sets. Ah well.
02:46 PM - Apr 22, 2024
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Dog woke up when I called to him and pointed out a rabbit just running across the lawn. He rolled up and wagged, but didn't get up. I laughed and he gave me his "I know chasing the rabbits is my job, big human...but mostly I'm still sleepy...". I told him it's all good. He is back to sleep now.
01:17 PM - Apr 19, 2024
Calling Mr. Cecil Bee Demille!!
Just met with a graduate student from #PSU #Entimology who is studying #hornfaced #masonbees colonial behavior. He is very excited about my colony, asked to move cameras and monitoring equipment here to study my happy #pollinators . My #pear #orchard is pleased.
Just met with a graduate student from #PSU #Entimology who is studying #hornfaced #masonbees colonial behavior. He is very excited about my colony, asked to move cameras and monitoring equipment here to study my happy #pollinators . My #pear #orchard is pleased.
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Stephen Spoonamore @SpoonamoreThe #orchard #PathOfTotality today celebrates the #masonbees who are the key #pear #pollination mechanism. My #honeybees love #apples but meh the pears. As a XXX bonus. #Ladybugs seem to enjoy enjoying each other in my pears. Several pairs and a throuple spotted enjoying spring today.11:15 AM - Apr 16, 2024![Image]()
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03:27 PM - Apr 18, 2024
On the #orchard #pathoftotality spring bloom season the Italian Plums have peaked. The #Pears are peaking now and the #Apples are just opening. The #masonbees are going nutso. The #honeybees saying 'meh'.
11:03 AM - Apr 18, 2024
The #orchard #PathOfTotality today celebrates the #masonbees who are the key #pear #pollination mechanism. My #honeybees love #apples but meh the pears. As a XXX bonus. #Ladybugs seem to enjoy enjoying each other in my pears. Several pairs and a throuple spotted enjoying spring today.
11:15 AM - Apr 16, 2024
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Yup. #thomasjefferson 's public comments on his open-secret partner #SallyHeming + their four children was all "woah-is-me-to-be-gossiped-bout" gaslighting. During his re-election to a 2nd term the press (and printed cartoons) became really rank, but he DID do, the core acts. And denied in public.
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02:17 PM - Apr 15, 2024
The #Orchard #PathOfTotality has #Pears are in bloom exactly on time. #bartlettpears and #anjou pictured. Plus #Italian #Plums and my excited #pollinators . Many types of #masonbees and #Ukranian #honeybees ... who are doing house cleaning this AM...FWR. #happyspring
10:26 AM - Apr 15, 2024
Massive rains here in C. #PA . 1.6in in last 24h. No #Orchard walk today, but the #greenhouse is lovely. Veg and Tom starts. Winter salad growing racks. Nasturtiums going feral. I love them in salads and dry the leaves and flowers making lovely pepper like local spice.
09:32 AM - Apr 12, 2024
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The #Orchard advances on it's #PathOfTotality . Let's look at the same two Bartlett #Pear clusters. Today the 11th about to have the big blossom day. April 7th during it #cthulhu form. And way back March 25th when I inspected for frost damage. Same two buds. Different angles.
10:25 AM - Apr 11, 2024
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Update from the #Orchard . #Apples are coming along. I have three legacy trees. All productive.
Glacier, Macoune and ...still not sure... Pictured in order Along with several I've planted including pictured Fuji. They don't require cross pollination but are almost always better for having it.
Glacier, Macoune and ...still not sure... Pictured in order Along with several I've planted including pictured Fuji. They don't require cross pollination but are almost always better for having it.
11:18 AM - Apr 10, 2024
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09:52 AM - Apr 10, 2024
The population of #Arizona Territory in 1870 was 9658. The 2nd Gov. (Gurley) has spent part of 1864 in the "Hellscape" of his territory before designating himself the Territorial Representative and returning to DC. He left an "Acting Gov" in his stead who was quite the piece of work.
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Lola Gayle @LolaGayleC"This is what medicine was like when the Arizona abortion ban was written." - Allison Gill08:58 AM - Apr 10, 2024![Picture]()
09:27 AM - Apr 10, 2024
The #Orchard continues on the #PathofTotality . The #BartlettPears are now opening the flower clusters. Will bloom in 72 hours. All seem to have survived the last freeze. One of the #LovellPeaches (pink) decided to rush out ahead and it's two partner trees 🤔3 of 5 apple species showing.🐝s r out.
09:57 AM - Apr 09, 2024
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05:47 PM - Apr 07, 2024
#Orchard Update. Three Days of Biblical Rain in C #PA . Standing water everywhere and local flooding. Now we have two days of cold and possible freezes. Will lose some of the early flowers either to rot, freeze or both. But, both Grafted and Stock Pears all ready to burst open.
10:53 AM - Apr 05, 2024
Congratulations Humanity! A major milestone since we locked in our explosively overheated CO2 future. We broke the arctic c. 1995...now we reversed the Polar Vortex!! It likely last reversed during the #eemian interglacial period apx 130,000BC. #Welldone fellow #Holocene -ers.
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Waldo Grace @waldograceThe Polar Vortex Has Shifted Into Reverse – And Is Now Spinning Backwards #ScienceAlert
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10:45 AM - Apr 05, 2024
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I am hereby adopting #ThePathOfTotality as both a life-mantra and a business management strategy poster-phrase.
I do not mean to diminish the Moon. Nor her Shadow. Nor Astronomical Tourism experiences in general.
But the phrase Path of Totality is being wasted when applied to this rando event.
I do not mean to diminish the Moon. Nor her Shadow. Nor Astronomical Tourism experiences in general.
But the phrase Path of Totality is being wasted when applied to this rando event.
06:33 AM - Apr 05, 2024
If you recall, a global pandemic biologically began c.2019, but really got going culturally in 2020. Everyone was live-work-zooming in one room wearing PJs or sweat pants. My wife,and her gang, now refer to all non-sweats as "hard pants" and in-person work as Put On My Hard-Pant Days.
08:47 AM - Apr 01, 2024
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Today. Orchard Lesson. Along the main road the prior owner planted invasive, now banned Bradford Pears. They make lovely, but stinky flowers. Rather than just eradicate, I am (attempting) Barlett and Anjou graft stems to the shorn trunk. A fruitful Frankenpear. Some stems are taking.
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Stephen Spoonamore @SpoonamoreToday. Orchard lesson. Three days of very cold nights with hard Freezes. You can see the white flashes from pictures I posted 3 days are now brown. Frost damage. But the inside likely remains viable. This week sunny days+nights over 0c will pop open some. Macoun and Glacier apples in background.10:49 AM - Mar 25, 2024![Picture]()
12:02 PM - Mar 27, 2024
Today. Orchard lesson. Three days of very cold nights with hard Freezes. You can see the white flashes from pictures I posted 3 days are now brown. Frost damage. But the inside likely remains viable. This week sunny days+nights over 0c will pop open some. Macoun and Glacier apples in background.
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Stephen Spoonamore @SpoonamorePears, Apples and Blueberrys have a common ancestor about 40M years back. All three share an interesting botanical promiscuity kink. They require cross pollination from one or more close cousins, but not a sibling plant to bear fruit. I have Bosch, Bartlett and Anjou. Bartlett photo attached.11:47 AM - Mar 22, 2024![Picture]()
10:49 AM - Mar 25, 2024
I'm a tech exec. and have overseen a lot-o-money spent on good legal work. Getting a Clerkship of this level uber-competitive, and Clerking a case is a dreamy Golden Career Maker. I read the article, #JudgeCannon 's staff clearly thinks she is a disaster case, and they are fleeing.
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Ronald Alexander @djchefronIt ain't rocket science as to why they are jumping ship in what could be the most historical case they would ever be involved in. They know a shitshow when they smell it08:25 AM - Mar 25, 2024
08:57 AM - Mar 25, 2024
It ain't rocket science as to why they are jumping ship in what could be the most historical case they would ever be involved in. They know a shitshow when they smell it
08:25 AM - Mar 25, 2024
Today is 38F and softly raining. The Kiddo and I just came in after two hours doing work outside. One of our local baseball fields is now cleaned up for Spring play. Leaves, Pinecones sticks raked up. Dugouts swept. And now the appreciation of hot soup, dry socks and a warm home is refreshed.
12:45 PM - Mar 23, 2024
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Today, buds on my pear trees have flashes of white.
I plant fruit trees every year. At my place, and at others.
I love the harvest of fruit. Love the exercise of pruning in the cold of winter. I am most charmed when the blooms start, and the first bees come to bash them open for pollen.
I plant fruit trees every year. At my place, and at others.
I love the harvest of fruit. Love the exercise of pruning in the cold of winter. I am most charmed when the blooms start, and the first bees come to bash them open for pollen.
08:46 AM - Mar 22, 2024
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Holy shit! Lev Parnas just implicated Republican Sen. Ron Johnson and Rep. Pete Sessions (who's sitting in front of him!) in a Russian scheme to deliver dirt on Joe Biden. - h/t @CalltoActivism
Holy shit! Lev Parnas just implicated Republican Sen. Ron Johnson and Rep. Pete Sessions (who's sitting in front of him!) in a Russian scheme to deliver dirt on Joe Biden. - h/t @CalltoActivism
12:21 PM - Mar 20, 2024
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Today, the direction of my family will be impacted by a decision over which we have no control. Being wholly made by others, it will put us on one of two very different paths.
My Bride's is stomach-upset-churning with jitters.
I am bemused. Even calmer than normal.
We are a good team.
My Bride's is stomach-upset-churning with jitters.
I am bemused. Even calmer than normal.
We are a good team.
11:28 AM - Mar 20, 2024
