A long vacation

These are pictures from from my garden.  May 6, Tuesday was my last work day, taking all my 

vacation days until July 8th when I will go back for my last work day.  Hard to believe I have only been off for 3 work days.  Have gotten a lot of work done around home.  Worked in the garden each day for a couple of hours grooming, pruning, and cleaning up debris.  Cleaned out the garage and re-organized everything. Cleaned the house, cleaned out the clutter from the guest room. 

New project is to organize all my photos and Jim's old photo.  Detached all the photos from the old albums (pre-acid-free days).  Number of photos are overwhelming but I will make the time to organize it.  Some of the old photos from Jim's family may have to toss if Aimee didn't write anything about it on the back.  Don't see too much value in blurry pictures I have no clue who it is or where it is and don't think anyone else will know anymore.  

Also found slides and pictures of Danielle and her mother, may consider sending them to her and she can do what she wants with them.  

Meanwhile getting ready for my party next Saturday.  Hope the cherry tree will still have cherries left by Saturday. Hung strips of aluminum foil where I can reach it, heard the the flashing of the strips will scare the birds away.  Will be fun for the kids to pick cherries off the tree like we did in Fresno. Don't think it is a Bing, might be a Van. Planted 2 trees 5-6 years ago, one died, and I didn't think this one would fruit without another variety, but for the 1st time, there's a respectable crop on the tree.  Roses are in bloom. Still oranges to be picked. Quince tree is full, still need to plan to prop up branches before the fruit gets bigger. Plums are still green.  Persimmon tree has fruit finally,l will be interesting to see how many fruits I will get.  Now that the trees are getting bigger, I will have to consider taking some things out since the trees are shading them.