TREES!

 We'd been living in our house all of about three days, when I decided it was time to get down to serious business. Tree planting. I found the two cherry trees I wanted as Costco (Bing and Black Tartarian), so I bought those while I was there. Then a few days later, we went back to Costco and bought a plum tree, and a 3-combo apple tree (it will grow Lodi, Honeycrisp, and Zestar apples). Then we went to Lowes and found an Elberta Peach and a Bartlett Pear.

So all six of our fruit trees are in the ground and raring to go. I wanted to get them in as soon as possible, because it will take a few years before they produce any fruit. We still have to buy the six Linden trees for the grass between the road and the sidewalk, but so far I haven't been able to find them locally, so I may end up having to order them online, but I have one more nursery to check first.

The kids are really excited about the trees, and love sitting in the yard with their little garden trowels pretending to help daddy dig the holes. And since our whole yard is dirt they are welcome to dig pretty much where ever they like. It's like a giant sandbox.