Today at Our House - the Grove

Bill started working on our grove situation a few days ago. Out here you really need one on the north side of your house and buildings to block wind and snow. We have just had a small, scraggly one with more trees dying each year.

Bill did lots of research and has decided what kinds of trees would be best (we hope) and how far apart to space them, etc. He has the trees ordered. More about that when we plant them.

He's working on cutting down all of the old ones. The first picture is looking east to west and the second one is from the road looking east. The last is a video of one of the pine trees coming down.

Our yard has really greened up in the past few days. We figure we'll be mowing this week. Bill had put fertilizer on it in the Fall and then we never got any rain. Our yard is still fairly new so we hope it fills in and thickens up this year. We also hope we get a nice amount of rain this summer for the new trees, the yard and, as always, the crops. Not too much or too little, no hail or bad wind - we don't want much do we!