Orchard/North

We completed planting the north side of the orchard yesterday. The wind blew the dirt into our eyes the entire day and sandblasted us relentlessly, leaving us squinting, red faced and raw. But we knocked out all of the trees that were planned. We have about 20 extra trees that we'll put in today to wrap up the planting and then we'll call the planting officially completed. We did stake some trees yesterday and used some special rubber-bands that have a T on them. It took us a while to get the technique down but I think we'll be able to get that completed over a few days without a problem. Besides the wind we did have the auger chain break while trying to dig out a rock. I had lots of repair links on hand, but no additional chain, so we were delayed while Sharon ran to town to get some more chain.  But overall, the day went well, even if by the end of the day everyone was very tired both physically and mentally and wanted to see the last tree go into the ground.