Got Some Trees Planted
How many “carbon offset” points does this get me?
The other weekend the woman and I were at the parents house dropping off Chuck Norris for some dog sitting and it came up that they had just planted about 300 arbor vitae around their driveway/parking lot.*
I liked the look, thought it would be a nice to drop a line of them in the front yard, and they had some left over. My brother counted 32 when I called him back a couple days later, which was nice, because running the math in my head it’d take about 30 to do my front yard.
Turns out they had about 50 or more, but that didn’t matter. On Saturday they had an employee drop 30 of them off at my place. Yes, I know this sounds weird. See the asterisk at the end if you must.
I drove on back to their place, grabbed a tractor with a post-hole digger, and drove 45 minutes back to my place at a snail’s pace. The woman snapped a picture of me upon arrival.
I’m such a dork.
We started dropping trees into the yard about 6 feet apart and it quickly became apparent that my estimate of 180 feet divided by 6 feet for a total of 30 trees was off. I know my lot is 200′x275′ but I guess I don’t know where the boundaries are and didn’t want to come anywhere near the neighbors land.
Anyway, after a while we ran into some pretty heavy clay. Heavy enough that the post-hole digger needed some help.
Perhaps not OHSA approved.
Good times.
*: My parents are the owners and operators of Countryside Greenhouse which is where all that stuff came from. No, they weren’t free, but damned close to it!