Well for rootstock you usually have to stay in the same species - so not plum . I assume you see thorns . So on pear it could be flowering pear (Callery) or Harbin . One last year is on what I suspect is a wild Callery x Harbin mix . This years graft is on Harbin = good to zone 2 . Apples were often on seedling apple . However other clonal stocks were in use . Antonovka is a Russian seed grown cold hardy standard size apple stock still in use .
And one buffy from MNChickMom. I think yours is a cockerel and he'll be my lead when he's grown up. MNchickMom's looks like a pullet. That dominique has the most gorgeous barring started. IDK if male or female. I've never had them before. I'll get some up closes so my experts can tell me that. But the barring. Since I didn't know how to sex the doms I went for shanks and barring patterns. Wowser the lines on that bird. She 
is sharp. 
Actually it's funny you mentioned it. We actually made our annual trip today. . currently at sonic having an ice cream waiting for the doc to come back from lunch so I can talk to him about my birds.I've got a Hareld Red with bad Sun Scald. Half the tree is starting to blacken up. I think she'll be a loss. Darn it. I wanted a tree in that spot too. I have the white wrap around the trunk thingy on too. Wonder what went wrong.
Holms you have not had sunfish cooked the right way maybe. There is a good meat flavor to those fish that is not in walleye or crappie (The clean white meated desirables) You might have to have some scaled and gutted and cooked up fresh. That really adds a nice flavor actually. Although less attractive then the filleted.
Holms I have one BO from you --that last whoops egg.
Thank you all for your lovely thoughts and prayers on DS here on BYC. I feel like you're all family sometimes and it's easy to share or maybe over share. LOL. But anyways you are all such good people. @shawluvsbirds I hear you on the puppies and strapping in. You maybe don't need to with good settled pups.
Sadie --our own labrador-- is the type that does require the strap in. She is horrible. We rarely take her places-as home is always best for her and she shows her nerves in the car.
Ralphie, I suppose living up here I don't get to vote for you. Shucks. You know you'd have my vote.
still have more to go in the gardens but need my supervisor aka husband there since the fall yesterday. Sadly because of being a single income house hold and me being the only child care option I have; I have to skip my annual conference in st cloud. I really wanted to put a bee in some ones drawers up there. Being the "poor rural" earthkeepers ministry rep I'm not well received. 
So it would have been amusing since I was told at training that raising chickens for butcher is taxing on the ecosystem.
I have never been able to get a North Star cherry tree to overwinter where I live. Rather than replace it with a Dwarf Juliet, I very strongly recommend that you get an Evans Bali for a replacement. They are also a natural dwarf tree and where I am they have survived winters that have killed elms, other cherry trees and apple trees.
Speaking of....how much is reasonable to ask for my 6 week pullets? $8? $10?
$10 seems reasonable. Have they all been sold?
Nope. I just tossed out $7 at someone and she thought that was way too much. Think I'll have takers for the pullets. Still have the 3 cockerels. I think I might have a taker for one of them, but I'd let @duluthralphie have his pick of he wanted one.
