Plant A Tree

Adin's Special Tree

I know that National Arbor Day was last week, but today Adin brought home a lovely Colorado Blue Spruce that was given to each of the students in our school from the NADF and Wal-Mart.  Pretty cool.  He was so excited that as soon as we all got home, planting that tree was the first thing we had to do.  So the planting commenced. 

As usual the girls ended up being the ones to really get into it.  Adin had fun running around being silly, he did pick the spot for the tree to reside.  It is a lovely place on our hillside just north/downhill from the campfire pit and will form a nice view as you drive up the driveway.  Now just to protect it for many years so nothing runs it over, eats it or digs it up.                               

Tonight we also had our first campfire and hot dog roasting of the year.  The kids love to do that and it was a perfect night.  It was so nice to see the sun and smell campfire smoke.  Brings back memories of the river.  :)  After supper, Scott and I walked around the garden to continue planning for our terraced addition to the yard and garden.  We have a lot of big stumps that we have to get rid of some how.  Wish we had a bulldozer.  Hopefully we'll get that all taken care of in the next couple of weeks so I can get my potatoes and pumpkins planted. 

We had planned that we would acquire wood and materials for the green house/chicken coop/dog kennel addition as we went and then all of the terrible storms happened in the south and we had to change our plans.  Buy the supplies now before the cost of all that building materials sky rocket and we end up paying a ton more for it all.  We now have a rather large stack of lumber in our barn.  Yeah for summer projects, now we just need the warm weather.