Susie knows springtime is planting time, so she’s once again obsessed with having a garden. Last week, she saved the seeds from her apple and raced outside with her brother to find the perfect place to plant an apple tree. They even dragged snow shovels with them to dig a hole. They came back inside, caked with dirt and all atwitter about how wonderful it will be to go out every day and pick an apple to eat. I filled them in on the realistic timeline for tree growing, but for kids who believe that their birthdays and Christmas are perpetually just around the corner, the prospect of waiting years for a fresh-picked apple didn’t daunt them.
Here they are picking the perfect spot (which turned out to be a rocky slope, which may also push back their timeline for homegrown produce):
And here are their muddy hands (and Danny’s hands for good measure. He’s looking forward to apples any way he can get them!).
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