This weekend we finally finished planting trees in our back yard. You may recall that in March my folks stopped by and left us with some high quality pine trees. Over the past… several… weekends we dug and dug and hauled the earth, put trees in the ground, and put a stone border down and mulched the whole thing.
Seventeen trees. Seventeen. Seventeen holes in what has to be the thickest, reddest, heaviest dirt we’ve ever seen. We used both machine and pick ax to try and work through it and have the blisters to prove it.
There were also a lot of rocks in the ground. We filled several bucketfulls. We finally put them on our back porch while we think of something to do with them, or a place to dump them.
The end results were well worth it. We have a whole row of trees in our back yard. In fact, the whole row stretches so far that I couldn’t fit it in a single camera shot and/or we don’t have a wide angle lens. I did manage a poor photoshopping of two images so you can sort of see how it came out.
Those trees look fabulous!
I love the pile of stones. LOL Bill said to ask the contractors if they need them for a dry well or something.
Well that yard is really YOURS now. All that hard work and a great looking boarder to show for it.
Holy Pine Trees! Amazing amount of work you two have accomplished. Just keep sprinkling… You could build a stone wall, stone pathway, sculpture, or fill your pockets and every night when you take a walk, drop them along the way… Patrick, when you were five years old you would help Anne Tomasetti’s mother pick rocks from her garden and she used to call them meatballs, until this little Irish kid came to help and then she called them potatoes.
yea for you to be done.
love momDxxoo