Grafting Pink Lemonade and Cherub in a Hard Spring Wind

Today I managed to get Pink Lemonade and Cherub grafted, but Cherry Crush is still waiting.

The wind was strong enough to make the whole job more awkward than it should have been. Grafting asks for a steady hand even on a calm day, and when the gusts keep moving branches, tools, and wrapping material around, every step takes more patience.

Even so, getting two of the three done felt like real progress. Pink Lemonade and Cherub are both the kind of varieties that make an orchard more interesting, not just more productive. They carry some personality with them, and that is part of the point.

There is something satisfying about these small orchard days. You may not finish the whole list. Conditions may fight you. But if you keep moving, the orchard still moves forward.

Cherry Crush will have to wait for a better window. That is fine. Part of homestead work is knowing when to push through and when to leave the last piece for another day.

A lot of orchard life is like that. You do what the weather allows, take the ground it gives you, and come back again tomorrow.