Fun with Google Earth

I did get the trees planted yesterday.  I did some closer research and found that sweet cherries start bearing four to seven years after planting.  I'm hoping mine make it in four years.  Apricots and peaches take from two to five years.  Maybe I will live to see some kind of fruit off those trees.  As for those three apple trees that have been in place for two years, they can be expected to bear fruit from two to five years after planting, so I can start hoping for apples next year!  At least it's a possibility. 

Google Earth finally updated our location, so I'm having fun playing with it.  The pictures now are from August, 2012.  It's possible to zoom in and see things closer up.  

August was hot and dry, but those silly horses insist on standing in the sun even if it's over one hundred degrees.  I searched for the cows too, but they have the good sense to stay in the shade when it's hot, and do their grazing early morning, late evening, and night-time.  

This shows you the route we take on our daily walk.  It adds up to at least two miles.  

A package came today

Back in July when I was eating peaches from my tree every day and freezing the surplus, I thought to myself how nice it would be to have other kinds of fruit.  Oh, we have strawberries and a pie cherry tree whose fruit is so sour you can't eat it fresh off the tree, but I want variety.  About that time when I was knee-deep in peaches, a Stark Brothers' catalogue came in the mail with pictures of luscious looking fruit; I asked myself, why not have sweet cherries, and plums?  Oh look, here's a new variety of peach that is similar to Belle of Georgia.  And apricots!  I love apricots!  I sat right down and made out my order for four dwarf fruit trees.  

I have these three dwarf apple trees in the back yard:  Golden Delicious, Fuji, and Gala.  Next year they will have been there three years.  I have yet to eat an apple from these trees.  There is a remote possibility that they might bear fruit next year, because it takes at least three years for them to start bearing.  

 There is a sweet cherry tree in this box that isn't expected to start bearing fruit until it's at least five years old.  I'll be seventy-three years old by then, and it would greatly surprise me if I am even still living on this property at that time!  And why did I think I needed another peach tree when I already have two?   What was I thinking?  

Then there's the matter of planting the trees:  Somebody is going to have to dig four holes.  The old saying goes, "Dig a ten-dollar hole for a five-dollar tree."  A hole twice as big around as the room the roots take up, in other words.  
Cliff is conveniently away, helping his brother at Higginsville with some project or other.  Oh, the trees would wait until he gets home, but he didn't ask for or want the trees.  It behooves me to head out there and at least try to dig the holes.  
Wish me luck.  
Indeed, what was I thinking?