Wishing all of you Happy Canada Day tomorrow. Taking my camera to the festivities toomorrow. Hopefully we will get some nice ones. Parade tomorrow morning, hope to see Julie on the float, stuff for kidds to do at lunch time and then a pool party with BBQ at Marten and Karen's.
And top it all of with fireworks in the evening.
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Saturday, June 6, 2009
Tree planting............
Some new faces on the blog. For those of you that think that I only do stuff with Pete, think again...........
Here is Damaris holding up a little Eastern Pine, ready to plant. Below, Caleb said:" Does it really smell like a pine tree? Well, why don't we smell it and find out?"
This morning, we went with the Sea Cadets and the watershed group, and planted some trees. There were about a dozen cadets, and then a few people from the local watershed group. We had about 250 trees available to plant. They were donated by the government nursery. Planting happened on a property that we rent. It has a big man made pond with wetland all around it. An ideal spot to plant trees.
All species native to the P.E.I.
A good time was had by all. Damaris asked:"Are those fishy things in the water tadpoles Daddy?" And after a closer look, yes they are. They had so much fun, it was hard to get them out of there. I don't know how much fun it was for the tadpoles.
Then it was back to the field where there was some heavy duty planting going on.
Planting is going well. Two more days should wind it up pretty well. The last two weeks we had really good weather. So a lot of planting was done.
Below are pictures of the Big Deere that we use to work the land. It pulls a Rez-Til.
A big rig that churns up the land and makes it fluffy for planting. Heavy duty pulling, it takes all 190 HP to keep it going at 7 MPH.
And the last picture shows the other Deere with the potato planter. You can see how dry it is by the dust in the air.
I hope to get some pictures of the tuberunit planter yet. Maybe I will get them on next week. Enjoy these in the mean time.
Here is Damaris holding up a little Eastern Pine, ready to plant. Below, Caleb said:" Does it really smell like a pine tree? Well, why don't we smell it and find out?"
This morning, we went with the Sea Cadets and the watershed group, and planted some trees. There were about a dozen cadets, and then a few people from the local watershed group. We had about 250 trees available to plant. They were donated by the government nursery. Planting happened on a property that we rent. It has a big man made pond with wetland all around it. An ideal spot to plant trees.
All species native to the P.E.I.A good time was had by all. Damaris asked:"Are those fishy things in the water tadpoles Daddy?" And after a closer look, yes they are. They had so much fun, it was hard to get them out of there. I don't know how much fun it was for the tadpoles.
Then it was back to the field where there was some heavy duty planting going on.
Planting is going well. Two more days should wind it up pretty well. The last two weeks we had really good weather. So a lot of planting was done.
Below are pictures of the Big Deere that we use to work the land. It pulls a Rez-Til.
A big rig that churns up the land and makes it fluffy for planting. Heavy duty pulling, it takes all 190 HP to keep it going at 7 MPH.
And the last picture shows the other Deere with the potato planter. You can see how dry it is by the dust in the air. 
I hope to get some pictures of the tuberunit planter yet. Maybe I will get them on next week. Enjoy these in the mean time.
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