Family Bonding

Despite the horrible wind, we needed to get some trees planted today. And we had some extra helpers as well. We make use of any extra hands (or in this case, feet) we can get. It took two adults, two kids and two dogs to get the job done. But it's done.

Dad wanted to add another tree row around the corrals at their place. This is where we do a good portion of our calving. So the tree line will serve several purposes and will mainly be a nice windbreak for our cattle. Again, it took a little elbow grease, but hopefully in a few years we will have a nice windbreak. Maybe by then the kids can hide behind the trees to get out of the wind instead of trying to crouch down on and behind the rolls of weed barrier ;-)

This is what we call a western Kansas hair-do.

Someone had to hold down the weed barrier with the wind as bad as it was. Might as well have some style while doing it ;-)

 One tree down.

Dad used the weed burner to burn a hole in the weed barrier to plant the tree after the kids had measured the correct distance between the holes.

My job was to run the post-hole diggers to dig the hole and then place the tree in the hole.

And as my nephew pointed out at the end of the job....now there will be more oxygen in the air thanks to us planting these trees. Smart kid.