24th September 2022
We drove to the garden centre to buy something to celebrate our wedding anniversary. The idea was to find an appropriate plant or object that would be a reminder of our forth year. It would then become a annual event to get something new for the garden.
As it is close to the end of the season things were sparse, but we stumbled through the foliage looking for something different.
We decided that a tree would be nice, but Kelli wanted an object, so we compromised and got both.
The tree was a weeping Norway spruce which is a bizarre looking object with a curvy trunk and droopy tails.
The other piece looks like a pile of pebbles, about three feet tall. It has a steel bar running though the middle of each pebble, it looks cool, and I’m sure we’ll find a good place for it.
Getting both things into the truck was a task in itself because they were both heavy. The tree was over five foot tall and it was almost at the limit of both of us, but we did managed it.
The worst bit was to come. Once we got back the challenge was to get it out of the truck, into a small barrow and wheel it round to the back gate and through to the new flower bed.
We chose the position, and I dug a hole so deep we should have struck oil, then I filled it in again. Finally it was lowered into the hole and bedded in.
The pebble pile was the next trial, one of them was broken and needed repair. A blob of epoxy solved that problem.
We stuck it in a temporary place, mainly became my bones ached and I had enough of carrying heavy loads for the day.
Another Lifetime to go 