Or maybe I should be.
While I was at work today, Ron and Jo planned for the arrival of our pawpaws and elderberry plants. First they had to take advantage of the calm day to lay out and cut lengths of our weed cloth. We are going to be doing all we can to help our new plants survive their first years. Keeping the weeds in check is an absolute necessity. The cloth will help with that and with some added mulch, it will also help reduce the amount of watering we need to do. We have 14 rows so that meant cutting 14 lengths of 60 and 65 feet. They used the street in front of our house and the curb gave them a great straight edge. Using chalk, they marked off the needed length and hauled the huge rolls of weed cloth to the curb. Too bad Jo couldn’t take pictures of the two of them working in the street. It must have been a sight. They would have been keeping a close eye out for cars; our road being a pretty busy one with cars, people and bicycles going up and down all the time. One of our neighbors watched them for a few minutes, wondering, I am sure just what they were up to. Maybe thinking that she needed to call the men in white coats. But she wandered close enough for Ron to give her his spiel. A few minutes of conversation and she was assured that he was no danger to anyone. But himself.
Brother Don arrived just as Ron and Jo finished loading the cloth strips into the Transit. They started puttering with the soil sifter, trying to get it working smoothly. A phone call from the truck driver gave them between 2-5 as time frame for delivery. So they had more than enough time to hit a local diner for lunch. At 1 pm they had just gotten started on another small project when the truck pulled up. Early is always good.
A majorly big truck here to deliver our 88 trees. Just how big are they going to be?
A bit of a let down, isn’t it? We were almost the last delivery of the day. I imagine the truck was quite a bit fuller when it headed out this morning from Syracuse.
My elderberries.
Ron’s pawpaws arrived this way.
The three of them loaded our new babies onto the trailer so they could be taken out the Tiny House Farm. Once again, Ron is so glad he bought the trailer. It has been a life saver more times that we can count.
Jo and Don busy unloading the pawpaws. All of the plants are safely out at THF waiting for us to plant them on Saturday. Will have to check on them tomorrow to make sure they are not drying out. Fingers crossed that the weather holds for the weekend, because rain or shine, plantings got to happen. Another fun day in the works.