planting trees!

Today we filled the holes that GB made with the auger.

Ano from GaiaYoga nursery arrived in the afternoon with 17 trees- lychee, longon, abiu and rambutan-- all tropicals and favorites in our family.

We were fortunate to have Ra'am with us. He finished his last final of the semester, played soccer, and then came to help.
We also brought Noam and Luka, and then had the Pacheco kids, Kairos and Osiana with us too.

It was a wet day- in fact it poured on us for probably 45 minutes.... so while I had every intention of taking lots of pictures, it just wasn't the best idea.

Ra'am had to dig this hole by hand. Here he's measuring its depth.Lychee tree

Shlepping cinder in the wheelbarrow to top dress the trees is fun

Happy tree (that's calcium carbonate on top)- I think it's a longon

While we worked, Luka and Osiana vegged in the truck, with a swarm of mosquitos and a movie. Let the record show that this is typically not something we do, but Luka was exhausted and we figured it might rain.

The completed orchard


The wet farmer

The gargoyle