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An Easy Easter Project, Winter Sowing Update & Placing Trees!

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An Easy Easter Project, Winter Sowing Update & Placing Trees! Garden Answer Laurie: This brings back fond memories from MILITARY SCHOOL when I was a teenager. I was living on base and when it was mail time, we all had to get in formation in a large parking lot outside of our barracks. The Sgts. would drag out large green drawstring bags full of envelopes and carry packages to deliver to us from our families from back home. Easter was approaching and it was one of the holidays where we were NOT allowed to go home for a visit, so we were excited to hear from our loved ones. Mail time was always interesting, because the Sgts. wouldn't just give you your mail. They would pull an envelope out and shout your last name and then throw the envelope like a frisbee. You would have to run to where your envelope landed and do 20 push-ups as you counted out loud, touching your nose to your envelope. Then you could pick up your envelope and return to your place in formation until they called your name AGAIN for other letters. Since packages were larger and couldn't be thrown, you would have to run to the foot of the Sgt. holding the package and do DOUBLE the amount of push-ups while the Sgt. opened your package and searched it for any items that we weren't allowed to have. Forbidden items included things like sodas and candy. My name was called, so I excitedly ran to the Sgt. that held a package from my mother. I proceeded to do my push-ups as this big burly scary Sgt. starts rifling through my package. He says Aw, well look at this! and he signals for all of the other Sgts. to come over and look in my box. Now that the other Sgts. had stopped calling names for mail time to come check out my package, EVERYONE'S attention was on me, the Sgts, and my package! My mother sent me an Easter decoration just like this, but smaller! The Sgt. said Look what Clarkson's Mommy sent her! It's a little Easter Tree! These big man hands are grabbing these little egg and bunny ornaments and hanging them delicately on my Easter Tree and they're laughing and EVERYONE is laughing and I AM HORRIFIED with teenage embarrassment! Another Sgt. says Aw, Wook at the Wittle Bunnies! as he makes the ornaments appear to hop in the air for the whole company to see. I look at the other Sgts. and they start opening bags of M&Ms, Reese Eggs, Jelly Beans and they're munching on MY CANDY as they have a ball decorating my stick tree! One Sgt. is looking right as me as he devours my candy making noises like Mmmm, I haven't had Reese Eggs in awhile. I hope all your Moms are as nice as Clarkson's Mom. Yeah Clarkson, tell your Mom we said thanks for the candy. Here's your wittle Easter Tree. Set it up in your locker. Get back in formation I was SO Embarrassed! and SO bummed they ate my candy in front of me! As crazy as that day was, as an adult, it just makes me laugh and appreciate my Mom so much more and to be so grateful I had the kind of Mom that would bring Easter to me on a military base: ) Thank you for this video and this project! It makes me SMILE!
Date: 2022-07-16

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Comments and reviews: 9

Anna
living in South Florida - 10B - and well lets face it - tons of palm trees - I use the branch that holds all the seed pods for new palm tress - spray it white and hang lots of tiny eggs that I get from the Dollar Tree store along with a new tiny plant pot - I fill the plant pot with either heavy rocks or just fill it up with Plaster of Paris - which I always have on hand - every time someone sees it for the 1st time - all they say - Oh I want one - and well I go and make them one for Easter - easy peasy - Have the Kids help - they will love the ownership of it all - and to Have a Very Blessed Easter - Keeping the Faith
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Mary
Given any thought to locking off a cheap camera somewhere high and protected and doing a time lapse of at least the first season when you do some of the big structure work? And I would so love to see a time lapse of the much anticipated Hartley Botanic being built! Im really enjoying riding along on this journey with you! Many thanks! Completely agree with all of the requests for repeated drone footage and the sketch (also superimposition of one over the other) as it really gives us the geography of whats happening and where it is in relation to other areas. What fun!
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Rhonda
I love our 20-year-old stewartia/false camellia tree. It's fall color is brilliant and its flaking, mottled bark is eye catching. The blooms are unique too. I enjoy them even though I choose to clean up after this tree several times during its multi-week blooming period. Spent blooms fall daily and are still pretty at first but quickly brown. The clean up is worth the effort to me for its Fall color and its beautiful bark. We have limbed it up over time to expose the lower trunk and branches so we can see its bark all year long. I hope you enjoy yours!
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Jenson
I also love lilacs but my asthma goes crazy every time I am near them in bloom so even though I love them and think they are beautiful and smell great I get red eyes runny nose and asthma attacks every single year from they spring out and until flowers die I walk around with the epiphen, oxygen and asthma inhaler it is so irritating when what you love can also be bad for someone I am also allergic to cats and rabbits so I have to just look through TV or PC or a window practice practice i think the cats are so beautiful
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Vickie
Wait just a moment, where was I when the studio got painted? How did I miss that? Loving the color, the chairs do look just right in there, too. Well, anyway back to the subject matter. The Easter project was lovely and inspiring. I have three teapots in a similar design as the vase you used & I have some ideas now for a spring arrangement. Wonderful to see more large trees making it out to the new property. Yea Progress We can all see and feel the excitement along with you two!
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javier
LOVE IT! I love how you guys decided to plant lots of different kind of trees. The pond idea is AMAZING! Imagine all the aquatic planta that you can put there! You can even make an small island in the center so that you can plant a weeping willow! Bird watching in the future will become a MUST in your garden, with so many variety of trees, they will feel like they are in heaven!
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Shelly
The smiles on both of your faces, says it all! How exciting for you guys to be fulfilling this dream. one tree at a time! It is really going to be a beautiful, park like property. The branch you picked for the Easter project could not have been more perfect! And thinking forward to Halloween decorating with those branches will be awesome too!
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Margot
Seeing Aaron getting the blue spruce from the front of the house with the forklift makes me wonder. Have you ever considered using the Versailles area as a semi-circular drive? That would define it as the house front whenever folks come up the road. Semi-circular drives can be so gracious and beautiful, just like you are!
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a1sspiked
You show a wet spot on the north side of the property, close to your front entry lane. Perhaps a weeping willow would work for that wet area. They are water hogs so unless your neighbor has a septic system that could be bothered by the roots, you may be able to dry that area up a bit?
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