Angel food cake is already out of the oven. Whole wheat bread is sitting around rising. Peaches are cut up and sugared and in the fridge getting juicy. Sweet tea is steeping. Dishes are all done. Wow. I can be productive! Who knew?!
Next project is to identify the trees currently in our front flowerbed. We want to transplant them somewhere useful. I keep telling Lin, as I have since they came up ages ago, that these trees are Pecan trees. He isn’t going to believe me without proof. Well, I found the proof, so now he has to believe me. He insists the leaves are too large to be a Pecan tree. Just goes to show he has never seen a one-year-old Pecan tree before. The leaves are HUGE. Actually, it isn’t that the leaves are necessarily so large but that the tree is so small and the leaves are normal-sized. His other argument is how Pecan trees would spout in our flowerbed. That one is easy: squirrels. They have to be doing something with the Pecans off my Pecan trees, because I haven’t seen a single Pecan in three years. Obviously they are stashing them everywhere.
Anyway, here’s a photo of the leaves in question. Sure as heck look like Pecan leaves to me.
Sure as heck is a Pecan.
If you are going to transplant be sure and wait until Winter when the tree will be dormit. Tell Lin that our little furry friends are the ones who plant more Pecan trees than any other factor.
They hide them in the ground and a lot of times forget where they hid them are who ever hid one will lose it’s life and the result is a Pecan tree.
We need to do a lot of transplanting and tree trimming, and yes, unlike our stupid neighbors, we will be waiting until the proper time to do it. They hacked around on their own large Pecan tree, I’d be surprised if it survives. Not that I think they care. They seem to hate trees with a passion.
So it looks like we’ll have five more Pecan trees in our yard next year! I think we should put a few of them in the front yard. I’d like the front yard to be more shade-filled. And, of course, we’ll have to put one in the gap created by the now dead tree so eventually I won’t have to look at the damn neighbor’s yard from my kitchen window. Gods, I am still so pissed off about what they did!!!