Two Pear

This morning, the orchard at The Homestead consisted of two apples, one pear, two hazelnuts, one almond, one peach, and seven plums. It sounds more impressive than it is. Many of the trees were planted as bare root seedlings, and they are not much taller than your knee. When production is good we get some apples, a few pears, and a bunch of sour plums. In an effort to upgrade that output, I bought two larger trees today at Home Depot. They were less than $20 each and had actual leaves like real trees. I guess we'll see how they do, the root balls don't necessarily look promising. One of the trees was a pear. The other was a pear, too. Which means that I bought a pair of pears.