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Trees!!!!

SOOOOOO very happy! Our trees were delivered. planted, fed, and staked this afternoon. I couldn't be more thrilled with our decision to have the nursery do the planting. The Tipu went in SO fast and easy. 1 guy 20 min. The Mesquite (which was getting planted near as possible to the old pine stump near the corner of the yard) was a beast to get in. It took 4 guys over and hour to get all the roots out. They took turns with pickaxes and only broke one pipe (which they repaired beautifully). We had our yard marked out by blue stakes, and it was crazy how many lines we had in all the best tree planting spots.

The small circle of dirt is where one of the old stumps used to be.

I love how tall the Tipu is. I am excited to see just how fast these fast growing tree really grow.

They did such a great job with this crappy situation of roots and utility lines. You can see how part of the tree is actually planted in the pine stump area. We need to get some fill dirt in the old stump area and round out the ring around the tree. It's hard to see how neat the mesquite is. It's bendy and twisty and awesome!

I am just SO HAPPY to have trees!!!

tree hair cut

flower bed and tree stumps

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This is what we started with. Some plants that were far to large for the flower bed, and a couple of large stumps. Although you cannot really see them in this photo the stumps are large and ugly.

I spent most of Friday gutting the flower bed. LOTS of weeds and plants needed to be removed. And grass. We extended the bed. The old one ended were the little picket fence started, and there was a shrub planted in the grass. Such a pain to mow and edge. Saturday we went to the Home Depot TWICE! Four full carts people. FOUR! The first trip was without the children, the second time wel took the children and let them go nuts picking out some annuals. We filled every nook and cranny of the van with flowers. It smelled SO good.

The yard turned into a hot mess for a few days.

Jon and Josh worked well past sunset using the rented stump grinder to grind out the stumps. Kaylee helped me take all the yummy smelling pine mulch and put it in the flower bed. I told her it smelled like Christmas. Poor kid have never had a real pine tree, and was baffled by my statement. This is the finished flower bed. We extended it out to the drive way, and made it several inches deeper. I also laid the old flower bed boarder on its side and made it level with the grass so I can mow right over it. No more edging!"Hey! I used to stand here!"