It’s March. The ground is a freezing slurry of snow, slush and mud, and is slippery as hell. Not the greatest surface to run around on, toting a saw, but hey…that’s March.
Although the chainsaw is back, I was impatient to get started today, and just went at it with the handsaw, and got a lot of the big branches down. Hopefully, pruning helps rejuvenate the trees, as they’re not yielding anymore: if they don’t set fruit after all this work, we’ll have to dig them up & start with new trees next year. Fingers crossed it doesn’t come to that.
As much as I’d like to be hiking around in the hills right now, the mud season will keep my enthusiasm in check…why not be up in a tree?
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