Money Doesn't Grow on Trees

Yesterday we enjoyed a little sunshine and took a stroll around the fields.  P wanted to find some birds. We saw one hawk and lots of animal tracks.
We also checked on our Christmas trees.

This area was a corn field when we bought our property. We started planting a variety of trees here but nothing we planted the first year lived as there was too much herbicide still in the ground. You can see that we do have some tallish trees now.
We had grand plans when we started planting the Christmas trees. We put in 50 each year and thought we would be harvesting them about the time the boys started college. We planted Christmas trees under the power lines because we knew we would cut them down before they got tall enough to be in the way. We have had experience with the way the  power companies trim trees and would like to avoid that in the future. We also planted Christmas trees along the edge of one of the garden spaces.

Our plan was for the boys to plant them, tend them, and then sell them to bring in money for college --or maybe just college books.  Due to the deer, rabbits, and the occasional tractor incident, they are not growing as fast as we had hoped. Perhaps they will add to P's education fund.

This area covered in snow is where we grew our pumpkins last year.