I'm Tired

I don't have any pictures to post this time, but I have been busy. This weekend I:

• Got a trailer hitch installed on the truck, and some other maintenance items;
• Got up at 4 am on Saturday and ran 20 miles;
  
• Assistant coached Boy #1's soccer game;
• Fed, bathed, and watched the boys while Dr. Wife went out for the evening;
• Made a loaf of bread;
• Got up and made french toast with homemade bread;
• Went to church;
• Went to Plants for All Seasons and picked up a Calamondin and a Lemonquat (Thanks Victor!);
• Stopped at the Orange Store for t-posts, pine bark nuggets, and potting soil;
• Mowed the lawn (front and back);
• Dug out giant oleander that was in the way;
• Drove in t-posts for muscadine grape trellis;
• Made homemade pizza for dinner;
  
• Dug up and transplanted neglected Meyer Lemon tree; and
  
• Rigged up an automatic irrigation line for container citrus.

I'm pretty wiped out, but I'm also very excited at the way the new orchard is coming together. I still need to get a bunch of smaller t-posts for the blackberries, and install the sprinkler valves in the front yard, but that can wait for a little while. My big task this week is to get my hands on some graftable trifoliate rootstock. My budwood order from the Texas A&M Citrus Center came in Friday afternoon, and I need to graft the budwood as quickly as possible. My plan is to go get rootstock one day after work this week, and then probably stay up as long as it takes to get everything grafted. If anyone is curious, I ordered 15-150 mandarin, Chandler pummelo, Clementine mandarin, Indio mandarinquat, Minneola tangelo, Ray Ruby grapefruit, Tarocco blood orange, Wekiwa tangelo, and Xie Shan satsuma. There are a few others that I would like, but they'll have to wait until the spring.