Day 8 Tuesday is for Trees

The day started out breezy, rainy and cool....you know those three miseries of mine...just on the light side...and as one gave way another took strength.  By mid afternoon the breezy was windy but at least it wasn't rainy.  Nonetheless...this was a very productive day!  We weren't planning it quite this way but the flow carried us on.  Started out heading out to Kluck's to pick out our annual tree cycling tree.  Fun thing to do, take in the Christmas tree in January and get a coupon for a new tree to pick up in May. We  chatted up the nursery man there ...learning a bit about trees and shrubs.  But we can't afford nursery trees, so we came back into town and checked out the sales and what luck, Sam's had exactly what we were hoping for in five gallon buckets for $15!  We started out with six Cleveland Pears, then Greg went back for two more of those and a couple red oaks and a a choke cherry.  He stopped at Aldi's too and found clearance annuals for $1 apiece and brought home Forsythea and Sedum and a five other things (which looked all but gone.)  I cant remember what they are and since my body hurts so much...I am not getting out of this chair to go find the tags in order to tell you.  

We lined the pears along the drive to create an "allee" or a "colonnade" along the drive.  One has to be optimistic when planning, placing and planting trees.
We had driven around Thomas township looking at other people's landscaping...the good and the bad.  Seems like people make a lot of mistakes with trees...too close together, too close to the house, too small...etc.  So we gave all that a lot of discussion and then just went with it.  Got three planted tonight, the rest go in tomorrow.  Split a few hosta today too...and Pete and the grub possee helped out.

I think tomorrow, Wednesday, is supposed to be better weather, but after today I think I will spend more time drinking coffee and considering my next move.

My job with the trees isn't so bad as Greg's, I don't have to dig holes, but I do carry water up from the ditch. I  drop a bucket and a line over the culvert and haul it up when it's half full.  Haven't strung the hose out yet, but will need to soon, these trees require lots of water.  We mixed pete moss in the holes and covered the mounds with mulch.  But since we planted fifteen dollar trees instead of 170 dollar trees I think we need to baby them.  So anyway, the day is done, and I ache...but there's some ice cream in the freezer calling my name.  I think this idea of taking a week's vacation this first week of May might be a good idea to do every year.  Get the garden totally in and then coast on into summer.  Took up drinking gin and tonic's last summer.  Ahhh....life is good.