Orchard visit..

Delicately grooming our Bride of Ground!

In anticipated arrival of those green groom-lings. Can't stand the dramatic flair? All right. We are preparing the ground for almond tree planting!

Someone drove off the road, took out the power pole and 80 foot length of the fence!

First of all, I hope that nobody got hurt! 

But, come on people! Watch where you are driving. This is second time this kinda thing happened at Whitmore. 

We only came to know of this when Lane first saw TID replacing a power pole along Whitmore Ave. He immediately notified me. Yes, fence was my idea! And I'm still big on maintaining a fence around the ranch. I will probably ask Rafael to fix it if he can.

For now, we contacted the police and was instructed what to do. Lane will go in and request a police report. It will include the information about the driver unless they drove off, and hopefully they will be insured so we can make a claim for the fence repair.  We'll see how this goes!

Finishing up soil fumigation is not being as easy as I expected..

I guess I spoke prematurely. The primary soil fumigant, Telone, is in short supply. Looks like we need a lot of it to cover all the open ground. There are very few suppliers of fumigation services. I wonder why we cannot consider alternatives like methyl bromide.

We are talking to Chris B, who has a relationship with TriCal, a primary supplier, and has asked them to be sure that at least the Candycot blocks are fumigated. We will see what happens. Rumor has it that supplies may loosen up soon.