The Iowa landscape has turned GREEN!

 

Bill had me take pictures of some of the trees and e mail the guy we bought them from.  See the brown spots?  This is happening on just some of the Norway Spruces.  Kevin at Kelly Tree Farm said that this is due to the hot, windy days we've had lately with not enough rain.  He had told us not to over water them which he says a lot of people do.  He says they should be ok if we water every 7-10 days unless we get rain.  Otherwise they look great and have grown a lot already!
  

We have a gas tank problem with our Enclave and it's going in Wed. for repair under warranty.   (this is the 2nd time for this problem - should've stayed with Hondas!)  We have to take it in with an almost empty tank so yesterday I went to Ft. Dodge to get some parts for Bill.  While I was gone he got the call that parts are in at Heartland Ag in Boone - could've done both of these things in the same trip if we would've known a few hours sooner!  So I'll go to Boone today - and we plan to water the trees.