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There have been a lull in my postings over the years. The biggest one was right after the front porch was ‘covered’ but before it was ‘finished’ and screened in. Part of that was because of all of the things that I needed to deal with my mom’s passing and everything that lead up to it…so I may not have added this tid-bit! I may have to go back and see, but I don’t remember making this public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My mother passed away on April 13, 2016 from Melanoma. We were all there when she left this world…it’s been 3+ years and it still feels like it was yesterday and I miss her like crazy! But anyway…mother’s tree!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The first Mother’s Day after her passing…I barely remember, but 1 year later on Mother’s Day 2017, I really wanted to do something with some of her ashes and our front yard needed a tree where one of the Holly Trees was when I bought the house. So Jen and I set out to find a maple tree that was perfect and we ended up driving all over the county looking for that tree…Baltimore Pike Hillside Nursery,<\/a> then to Mostardis<\/a> and then eventually Wedgewood Gardens<\/a>, where we found our Thunder Cloud Plum Tree. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Over the years, I had planted a couple maple trees, the first one was probably too small when I planted it and the second one, well, turns out I over-fertilized it. So I wasn’t sure anything would take there!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I mixed some of mom’s ashes in the dirt hoping that would help it take…and it makes it literally Mother’s Tree! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This past spring it gave us fruit…well, 1 cherry sized plum. We were told that this tree would only flower and not produce fruit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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