Planting trees

One of my distinct memories from when we moved into our home nearly five years ago was Denny's sentiment regarding the number of trees on our property. No, I don't recall the number (maybe 68?), but he counted them all and remarked about what a pain it would be to mow around and trim them. Not that he didn't love the trees. He is a nature guy.

Fast forward to this spring when Denny announced that he wanted to buy some trees. He showed me the order form and I kind of shrugged it off, but then he told me we needed to place an order. $183 later, we had ordered a ton of trees. Luckily most of them went to his grandpa's farm. We only planted seven on our property. Fittingly, we planted them on Arbor Day.

The kids helped, of course! They also loved digging for worms and feeding them to our chickens.

I know we will be happy when our honeycrisp apple and peach trees become fruitful within the next few years.