There's 62 trees mostly Oaks, Maple, Dogwood, River Birch and Redbuds. The River Birch have many, more slender trunks, and seem to be struggling more than the single trunk varieties.
There's 3 trees, at least, with more brown leaves, most at the top, and we know there are air pockets around the roots from planting day. Will have to get dirt into the holes as we push dirt and water down. One of these poor trees has a standing pool of water in the well we built. Once we shoved a branch into the soil, air bubbles came up and the water swirled as it entered the air pockets.....problematic in this heat AND we're dealing with mud, ants and trying not to burn out the well pump or empty our well.
We need a submerged electric pump for the lake, which we're allowed. The research says newly planted trees, this size....around 25' tall, require 20 gallons of water each, once a week......20x60=1200 in the very hot, dry spells.
We're using the mule, to run the shorter hoses around, at this point. It's not humanly possible to do it the without in this heat, like we did in the winter, during planting.... we'd have heat strokes.
I sure hope it's 🌧️ at the lake today, bc we watered the thirstiest trees only.
We're grouting the shower floor with black grout today,then moving to white grout for everything else. Would be great to finish that today,can't get toilet in.
The vanity requires retrofitting of drawers around the plumbing. We drew the cutout for sink yesterday.....not a centimeter of wiggle room to spare, btw. It's a 4" spread, with a pull out faucet. Still have to cut the legs off. Very handsome piece, with 6 big working drawers.
Shower door arrives tomorrow..... that'll be it's own installation nightmare, drilling into glass tile. Will see.
Exterior door to outdoor shower is last thing to deal with. I have lots of caulking and painting to do on trim. Some ceiling repair.
Must remove last if tile spacers and wipe down tile this morning. Will get up at 5:30 to get that done.
Foot still healing, but almost walking normal all the time.
I told DD23 to get tile choices together for upstairs bathroom, as she's been critical of my choices. Will roll into that after dealing with outdoor shed roof, insulation and finishing.....to be heat)cooled space with electricity for DD24's bf's band practice and teaching lessons, storing instruments, etc.
Their King mattress arrived, strapped to the top of my truck, just ahead of a massive thunderstorm. They have one of the walk in closets open, and a private bedroom. They were in a blowup mattress in the LR for a few nights.
It's chaos, but I think I'm relatively unfazed by it.
The sofa still sits in the truck. Need to edit closet contents, now sitting in LR. Will be large, for the space, but comfortable.
That's my tree update, Hops, and more.
The journey continues.
Lighter
