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Nice

This one. Looks oaky to me.

No, the right corner tree in the pot.

What do you have there in the far right corner?

Its 2 here now. I've seen -17 so far this year. Too much snow for my bad knee to go check on trees. Going through withdrawals not checking on my babies!

This is going to be a big planting year for me. Pretty sure I have a couple replacement persimmons ordered, though I can't see them on the Bluehill sight when I login. I have 12 apple rootstock ordered from somewhere coming. Probably plant them this year and then graft next year with a couple...

I see deer digging for that here too, though they're having a hard time getting to it now with how deep our snow is.

From BH regarding Deer Magnet: "This very late dropping persimmons are great for some late season hunting and will begin producing in as little as 3 years." Pretty sure this will be year 4 for mine. They're about 8' tall.

I don't have any that have produced yet, but I will say, of the different sources I've bought persimmons from, the ones from Bluehill have grown and survived the best. My oldest are Deer Magnets and I hope they're within a year or 2 of producing.

We haven't had bare grass since Christmas, and only 1 week of grass since Thanksgiving.

That was standard issue in PA. Luckily, my dad owned a gun shop and us boys grew up with 700's, 660's and model 7's. Looking back, I guess we were spoiled that way!

I have about 3 acres that I'm taking out of crop rotation this year and letting go. I pray goes to goldenrod. Deer and pollinators love it. I had fun watching a young doe this season working her way around my stand. She would get a goldenrod stalk in her mouth real low, then pull and strip all...

Anymore, I use about 50% red maple for burning. It used to be ash, but that's running low. The rest is cherry, hickory and yellow birch. I only have about 20 red/black oaks on my place, so they aren't getting cut down for firewood!

I haven't seen a grouse anywhere near my area for years. That said, the riparean planting I'm having done on my hunting property is going to be done with grouse in mind. Now I'll have to add some bird crabs to my list!

Not sure if I'll do anything rifle-wise this year. Pretty content with what I have. A 7mm-08 and a .338-06 covers alot of ground. The one thing I intend to do is get a can for my Ruger 77/357.