Apples and Peaches and Plums, Oh My!

 About 3 years ago we planted our first fruit trees: apple, peach, plum, cherry, and persimmon. For the benefit of the tree, we painfully pulled every fruit off each tree for the first 2 years. Now that the trees are well rooted and substantially larger, this is the first year we've allowed them to produce fruit! This is the second time Russell has pulled peaches off of our largest peach tree shown here.  We were afraid limbs would start breaking if we let all the fruit ripen. Needless to say, not much is wasted here on our little farm as an entertaining game of peach baseball and peach golf quickly ensued. Both kiddos tried several times to hit homeruns but ended up making peach salsa instead!  Ellie, the Great Dane, enjoyed some edible peach chew toys as well!