Last year Joyce and I bought each other a CD changer to replace the defunct one we had. It was our Christmas present to each other and that worked out well, made Christmas shopping easier. So this year we bought each other a tree, a five-foot (+/-) pinoñ. There are several gaps in the perimeter plantings, a result of the drought, so I planted the newcomer in one we can see from our skyview room. The nursery loaded it in the pickup with a skidloader and Chris helped me unload it by sliding it into a wheelbarrow from the pickup, then tipping up the wheelbarrow and sliding the tree out on the ground. We didn’t try, nor do I think we could have lifted it. Our mild weather of the last two weeks continued Thursday and I spent a couple of hours preparing the hole to plant it in. The trunk of a dead juniper was still there but I discovered it had already rotted out enough for me to simply shove it over and drag it out of the way. That meant I could dig my hole to position the new tree in line with the other trees. The juniper roots were so rotten they gave me no trouble. Continue reading “Christmas tree”
Christmas tree
by rakeeter 
