Yard Update | Its The Year of The Yard

It seems lately that my blog is more about my yard than anything else.  I don’t just sit and stare at it all the time and thing about nothing else, its just a great release for me and its something for me to be excited about and enjoy.  Not to mention, God is constantly talking to me through my garden and yard.  He shows me that how I care for the parts of my garden can work its way up to how I do ministry.  He also shows me the ways that my life is like that garden and he is the Gardener (ok, old cliche).  All that being said, this is definitely the year of the yard.  We knew it would be and we were prepared to spend our ‘allowance’ on it.  I guess you could say its a major kind of nesting for me as well, this is ALSO the year of the baby!

After all that, the purpose of this post is to tell you that I have found ripe fruit on my apricot tree!  I was under the assumption that it was a ‘fruitless’ tree because I had never seen fruit from it and neither had the people we bought it from.  But the neighbor told me last year that about 9 years ago there was fruit.  What happened this year?  Not only was it a wonderfully wet winter but I did some trimming on the tree while it was dormant.  I learned that I needed to do more but watch out, next fall that this is getting buzzed and I will probably have more apricots than I will know what to do with.