Lilac rustlers

I was supposed to write the Farm Side today.

And I honestly tried.

But the house is abuzz with everybody home.

And the boss offered to help me rustle lilacs.

I mean what would you do faced with such choices? I am just inside to now to see if you can root lilac cuttings with rooting hormone. Web research says yes, so I am gonna give her a go.

We also got some rooted suckers. We had to clamber down a challenging, brush covered slate bank over by the barn, just beyond the old falling down house where the boss lived when he was growing up. I am all scratched up but I'll bet it will be worth it.

He planted those lilacs for his mom when he was a little boy. The house down in town is surrounded by a number of them that I rustled back when we lived down there, but up here on the Dimond Farm side of the place there are only a few plain purple ones and a dwarf pink that I brought up (all frost nipped this year). We are hoping some of the ones we brought out of the jungle are the reddish ones that were Grandma Peggy's favorites. There are some spindly peony bushes over there too, valiantly sending up buds, despite being shaded by dozens of invading honeysuckles and box elders and who knows what all. I think I will see if Alan will dig those for me.....and maybe get a piece of the forsythia the boss planted by the foundation when he was just a tyke....