New Forever Stamps

I went to the post office for stamps. I was impressed that they finally did something cute with their forever stamps!

Now they just need to come out with some that have different kinds of flowers on them. :D

Started Some Peach Pits

I started some peach pits on Saturday. We had a couple of our big peach trees clear loaded with fruit just drop dead and all the green fruit just fall to the ground completely unusable. :( We chose another one of the trees that we've liked the fruit to and started 4 pits.

I'll let you know when they sprout. :)

My $0.89 Obliterate the Oak Tree Experiment

As I mentioned in my last article, we have this oak tree growing up through our peach tree. I read online that if you put copper nails into it, it will kill the roots. I don't know how or why that's supposed to work, but I decided to give it a swing. We went down to the hardware store, and after looking around for a while, we finally came up with these copper tacks for 89 cents:

Here's the lovely oak tree we're trying to be rid of:

You can tell that it was dark when I trimmed it last time. I left a lot of stuff alive. I started pressing the nails into each branch after I trimmed off the stuff I left:

Most went right in without problems. Others I had to use a hammer to get them to go in clear:

This is what the tips of each branch looked like:

Pretty classy, if you ask me. :) I like copper. The largest ones got two:

I just kept adding...

...until they all got one:

Good thing I had some company during this monotonous task:

I also got to brush a little red spider off my face when I was done. I tried to take his picture, but he ran off too fast. :( Better luck next time. :)

Eradicating an Oak Tree from the Peach Tree

One of our peach trees has been infested by an oak tree!

The only thing we know to do about it is to chop out all the new growth.

I actually quite like the leaves on the oak tree, but I think I like the fruit on the peach tree better. :D

You can see in this picture that the oak tree is growing mostly off to one side of the peach tree, but it actually has some shoots coming right up through the middle of the peach tree's trunk:

Canicus (Pronounced Con-EE-cuss - It's Spanish for Marbles) and Midnight, my kittens, had to come see what I was doing. They wanted to hide behind this box though:


Look at this big pile of oak branches I clipped off:

I wish I thought that was the end of that, but somehow I'm afraid the saga will continue as it has for the past few years. Any suggestions for a total annihilation of this tree would be greatly appreciated.