[Ag-eq] Tree report

[Tracy Carcione]

Jodi, congratulations on your new dog!  What a great name!

Jewel, I pick figs by holding the fruit and stem firmly, then wiggling the stem loose from the tree.  Sometimes I cut it a bit with my thumbnail.  Sometimes the stem pulls loose from the fig top, if the fig is real ripe.  I don't mind this, since I just pop the fig in my mouth.  Fresh, sun-warmed fig, Yum!
Tracy


-----Original Message-----
From: Ag-eq [mailto:ag-eq-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Jody ianuzzi via Ag-eq
Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2019 8:53 AM
To: Agricultural and Equestrean Division List
Cc: Jody ianuzzi
Subject: Re: [Ag-eq] Tree report

Hello Jewel,

Wow, you have been having unusually hot weather and we have been having unusually cold weather. This morning it was 9° below 0 Fahrenheit when we got up.

I just returned from the Seeing Eye with my new guide dog. He is a male German Shepherd. His name is chief.

Going the Seeing Eye was an incredible experience! The school is now 90 years old. They have thought of everything! I also gained 8 pounds because the food was so good! Well now I get to walk it all off with this fantastic new dog.

I don’t have any advice on how to pick figs. I would be curious though.

Stay cool and will try to keep warm

JODY

thunderwalker321 at gmail.com 

"What's within you is stronger than what's in your way."  NO BARRIERS  Erik Weihenmayer

> On Feb 1, 2019, at 9:55 PM, Jewel via Ag-eq <ag-eq at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> due to the excessive heat we have been having over the last few days;  however, not the 5 that are 
> necessary before it can be, officially,  recorded as being a heatwave, I have not been able to 
> summon up the necessary energy to walk the 5/6  metres from the shade cast by  the house to check my 
> trees, but today, being, noticeably, cooler,  I collected a donation that one of my sheep had made , 
> that was to go towards their welfare:  their's being the trees, not the sheep:   and dropped it 
> beside the fig, and found, joy of joys, perched right on the tippy tippy top, NO!  not the Christmas 
> fairy/angel, or a wooly caterpillar, but something much  better, or that is  what I  hope, a round: 
> about an inch in diameter:  furry things!
> Petrus or anyone else  who has knowledge of figs, while still on the bush, not in a packet from the 
> supermarket:  is this dear little object perched on top of my dear little fig bush, a FIG, and if 
> so, how does a blind fig picker know when it is ready for the plucking?
> 
>         Jewel 
> 
> 
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