As quilters, we’re all familiar with the saying “Measure twice, cut once”. Who hasn’t made a mistake in cutting quilt pieces? I often do so I’m not one to criticize anyone for making a mistake and I know better than ever to criticize my husband. If you’re a wife, you surely know that husbands so rarely make mistakes, it’s just real hard for them to handle being wrong. Every now and then . . it does happen and it happened here this week.
Last week Vince was planting the new apricot trees.
Planting Apricot Trees
When I went out there, I asked “Are you sure those holes are 25′ apart?” Yes they are. He measured them! I said ok and didn’t question him. During the week I was out watering the trees and I was thinking about it. Our breakfast room in MO was 12′ wide and I kept finagling trying to figure out how to re-arrange things in there. I looked at those trees and thought to myself . . my breakfast room from MO would NOT fit between those trees. I went and got a tape measure and they were 11 feet apart! There’s a pretty big difference in 11′ and 25′.
That evening I asked him . . how far apart did you plant those trees? 25 feet! Vince! It’s not 25′!
So, yesterday he began digging a new hole.
Digging a New Hole
He was not happy about having to replant one of them but in the long run, he’ll be glad he did.
We’re hoping to get some jujube trees this week but they’re about as hard to get as anything I’ve ever tried to get so I’ll be surprised if we get them. He said he was going to go ahead and dig extra holes for more trees so I guess if we aren’t lucky enough to get jujube, we’ll get something else. I’d be real happy to get another pear and maybe a couple of plums but I’m hoping for jujube.
What pray tell, is a Jujube tree? Never heard of those, and pretty sure they don’t grow the hard gumdrops from the movie theater concession stand!
I’d love to know what a jujube treee is too.
Hugs!!!!
Haven’t heard of jujube before. Probably would not grow here anyway. Hoping for pear tree to bear this year. last year blossoms froze. Year before we had 28 bushel. The tree is about 80 years old and still has the best pears. When we moved in it was about 35 foot high and we have been here over 50 years.
During our 43 years of marriage we have done a LOT of remodeling ourselves. There had been more mistakes made than necessary so our motto was changed to “measure once, cut twice.” lol Hope you havea great weekend.
I had no id ea, so I googled it!
http://www.crfg.org/pubs/ff/jujube.html
what the heck is a jujube tree? based on the other comments, i see a post on it in the future
Forget the trees, I’m just so glad you addressed the issue that yes, men do make mistakes, not in my house of course.
He’s a good man. And my husband likes to say he makes 1 mistake a year. Looks like Vince got his out of the way early for 2013.
We’re planting fruit trees this spring and I’m so excited to be able to pick fresh fruit one day.
Good luck with yours, Crystal. It will be so nice for your kids to be able to go out and pick fresh fruit and eat it.
Your mention of jujube sent me right to Google and onto Wikipedia. Are you planning to dry, smoke (as in smoked jujube, lest anyone get confused!) eat in hand or can?
I thought it was interesting that two American candies share the name, but not the fruit. Jujubes and Jujyfruit.
You’re always teaching me something interesting and expanding my horizons!
Some varieties are better for drying and some are better for eating fresh. We’re wanting the ones to eat fresh, as well as make jam.
I had to look up what a jujube tree was. Looked like there were several places to order them from.
There are quite a few varieties and there are three that do the best here. Those are the three that are hardest to find right now.
Jujube tree…this brings back memories of my childhood. We had a jujube tree in our backyard and I loved to eat the fruit right off the tree! Thanks for the memories and good luck finding what you want.
Jujube… isn’t that a date tree of some sort?
Funny story about the mis-measure! A 14′ difference, huh?
Ooops!