Spent the afternoon top grafting while the girls played. Displayed my rusty whip and tongue skills and eventually stabbed myself in a finger. But still managed to get Blairmont, Norfolk Beefing, Wallace Howard, St,Anna Boskoop and Circassian grafted. I'll finish out some others tomorrow to hopefully collect pollen samples this year.  No new bud breaks observed.

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