First off, I visited our friendly neighborhood BigLots store yesterday, and came home with 10 trees. I got 8 Cleveland pears (an ornamental variety - to line the driveway), a silver maple and a red maple. I am waiting a bit to see if we can use the tractor to dig 10 holes before I tackle that project myself.
In the meantime, I salvaged a huge bunch of daffodils that I noticed down across the road. J and I planted almost 60 bulbs at the base of some of the trees around the house. I hope I didn't traumatize them too much, but I'm pretty confident of the hardiness of daffodils.
I also waged war against the multiflora, the prolific wild rose that is EVERYWHERE in this area. Since our property was basically empty for at least 20 years before we bought it, the wild grape vine and multiflora had pretty much taken over around every standing tree.
In the meantime, my Dad had his cousin here this week to help build. They got up the rafters for the roof.
They were also able to put up the "lookout" on the house. This will be the first cupola on top of their house, with views out the windows for 300 degrees. The room beneath it is load bearing for the roof and cupola, and will be the bathroom: the heart of the house!
When it is covered to protect against rain, it looks like some mad science project under wraps.
Hooray for Spring and growing things!
1 comment:
Busy as usual, I see! So glad you took the daffodills! They will make you so happy every spring. They are terribly hearty, as you say.
Let's have a race to see who can get their ten trees in first. Ready, set, GO!
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