what else ought there be ?

when i was a kid, i would have to tiptoe around his anger issues often, sometimes running quietly past his work table until he got his own place completely separate from our family, locked away for days. every so often he would start screaming in the car and trying to hit me or my brother for talking too loud while my mom attempted to calm him down as he swerved on the road. and now he, smiling, helps me with car insurance.

Bondie says it is very much already time for leafs

The storksbill/filaree, while apparently also edible, is being viciously eradicated as the seeds wreak havoc with Alyssum and Ruckus' fur. It's also choosing to grow in my walkway so it chose violence first.

AND

Bondie is trying to be a mother! She will need support for any branches that produce apples this year, and I'm not going to let her set too many. But she's trying!

My yet unnamed apple has yet to really start leafing so I don't know if they're going to try this year as well. But they do have a little friend making themself cozy

However, growth-wise he continues to be a very strange tree. He wants to be spindly. He wants to have 20 foot long limbs with a huge cluster of branches right at the very end. And he wants these branches to grow straight up. Or straight down, preferably onto the ground itself.

Just... literally straight down.

So he got a fairly major chop today. I can't reach the top of him currently, but this weekend I'll get a ladder out there and further curb his extreme enthusiasm.