Road Trip for Trees

Karen, here is the answer to your question - we have a large pile to burn!

Next picture shows our house with no trees to the north side - very bare!!

Yesterday we borrowed the pickup and trailer in the third picture and went to Kelly Tree Farm in Clarence, Iowa - about 4 hours away. It was a nice spring day for a road trip with leaves just starting to come out on the trees as we got a little farther south.

We're going to have two rows of austree willows which are very fast growing on the north side of the new grove, one row of techny arborvitae, two rows of Norway spruce and one row of white spruce for now. Once the stumps are gone that are on the house side, we may put another row of white spruce or something else "pretty".

We also got two pink flowering crabapple trees and two red buds which we planted in the yard tonight.

In one of the pictures, you can see some pink flowering trees at the tree farm. They're peach trees! The last tree picture shows some austrees that are only about 5 years old. We're supposed to plant ours and then cut them off waist high. We have our work cut out for us the next few days!

We asked Kevin at the tree farm where a good place to have lunch would be, and he said they really like their little Mill Creek Cafe in town. It was cute and they had a choice yesterday of vegetable soup, breaded tenderloin or a poppy seed chicken casserole with sides of roasted potatoes and grape salad (yum - the kind with cream cheese & brown sugar) and a little piece of a good quick bread. Bill had the tenderloin and really liked it and their potato chips. They had 4 homemade desserts. We split a banana dessert. We were glad we found out about the cafe rather than eating at a chain restaurant that you can go to anywhere.