Sunday, April 25, 2004
Dig it!
So, Susan, you say. How are those trees which were so cruelly mistreated by the PO doing?
How kind of you to ask. I did manage to get them planted over the course of Tuesday and Wednesday, despite my status as Excavationally Challenged. Yes, I do many physical things reasonably well, but for some reason, when it comes to digging holes, I totally suck.
Especially compared to Caro. She has an MS in Library Science, but she could easily hold a PhD in hole-digging, were such a program offered anywhere. It was one of the reasons I was so glad to see her come home from her conference a couple of weeks ago. You know the thing about good friends helping you move a body? Yeah. And since we were talking a Lab-Rottweiler-Chevy station wagon cross, that was no minor task.
But *I* got the trees placed. We now have 3 Austrian pines, 2 Colorado Blue Spruce, 2 white pines, and 1 each of Weeping Willow, Yellow Buckeye, and Red Maple scattered about the grounds.
Plus two forsythia. Those were Caro's House-iversary present. Since we can't (yet) get married, 20 years ago we decided to make the date of the closing on our house our official annual celebratory event. Whee, only 10 years to go on the mortgage!
Oh, and one of the Blue Spruce is Duke's now.
How kind of you to ask. I did manage to get them planted over the course of Tuesday and Wednesday, despite my status as Excavationally Challenged. Yes, I do many physical things reasonably well, but for some reason, when it comes to digging holes, I totally suck.
Especially compared to Caro. She has an MS in Library Science, but she could easily hold a PhD in hole-digging, were such a program offered anywhere. It was one of the reasons I was so glad to see her come home from her conference a couple of weeks ago. You know the thing about good friends helping you move a body? Yeah. And since we were talking a Lab-Rottweiler-Chevy station wagon cross, that was no minor task.
But *I* got the trees placed. We now have 3 Austrian pines, 2 Colorado Blue Spruce, 2 white pines, and 1 each of Weeping Willow, Yellow Buckeye, and Red Maple scattered about the grounds.
Plus two forsythia. Those were Caro's House-iversary present. Since we can't (yet) get married, 20 years ago we decided to make the date of the closing on our house our official annual celebratory event. Whee, only 10 years to go on the mortgage!
Oh, and one of the Blue Spruce is Duke's now.
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