Baby Trees!

 

TREES!!!!!

 

 

Three weeks ago (!) we went with our friend Jarrett to the Georgia State Farmer’s Market and bought 22 trees. 12 for Thomas and I and 11 for Jarrett – landscaping fiends that we now are.
You can hear the highway from Butters, so we knew we wanted screening trees that would grow fast and withstand, well, whatever.
So we got arborvitae – the same trees that my parents have in their back yard. Ours are ever so slightly smaller. Thomas had some deep seated need for fruit trees, so we also bought a granny smith apple tree. And I checked, it doesn’t need another tree to bear fruit.

So, we bought them Saturday and planted them the next day – luckily, we’ve been getting some pretty crazy rain, so digging all those holes wasn’t nearly as bad as I thought it’d be. Still not a snap, but I didn’t want to cry. Always good.

The following weekend we installed a spigot outside and got our hose and sprinkler set up to water the new babies.

Then Thomas and our neighbor John took down the old chicken wire-esque fence that ran along the back of both our properties. They also tested out our new lawn mower and weed eater clearing out a couple truck loads of debris (plant debris, luckily). So then it was time to go back to the scrap yard. I never thought I’d be so familiar with the workings of scrap, but. . .at least it’s out of our yard and not in a landfill.

I think that’s all the pictures I have for this post – oh, there are some bonus shots of Greg’s massive wind chime and the chicken coop Dave P and Greg rebuilt for their new chickens. The chime was altered to include a bowling ball shortly after I took these pictures. And I haven’t taken any pics of the baby chickies yet, but might be doing that tonight. . .

Oh no! I forgot about my Valentine’s Day present! Thomas built me two cold frames so we could start growing flowers from seeds inside. Now we’ve expanded to tomatillos and artichokes and are keeping our fingers crossed.

Pansies!

Coldframe

My Coldframe and Cow Cat

Getting in the Mood

Thomas and Jarrett with his Cypress trees

Cypress Binding

Tree Holding Pen

TREES!!!!!

Thomas and the Granny Smith

I’m officially a Tree Hugger!

Tree Planting Booty

Bottlescape

Pointy Load

Thomas Climbing Fence

Thomas Squishing Fence

Loading up the truck

King of the Fence

Dave’s Coop

Before the Bowling Ball

Greg’s Windchime