Earth Day

Earth Day is a funny holiday to me. Don't get me wrong, I am not a planet hating, oil spilling, littering fool by any means. Why do we set aside one day a year to do something good for our planet? Shouldn't we be doing good things for our planet every day? Recycling? Not littering? Picking up garbage we find?

Anyhow, we did do something good for our planet, not because it was Earth Day, but because there were some good sales and we had to take advantage of that!

So thanks to Earth Day sales we got an Autumn Blaze Maple tree for our back yard. They are suppose to be fast growers, hopefully that is true, we could really use some shade in the summer time.

Here it is! The boys were so excited that they got to help plant it.

This is what the Autumn Blaze Maple will look like eventually.


Also, Lowes (where we got the Maple tree) was offering a free tree, so we got that one too. It is just a seedling, so we recycled the plastic container the Maple tree came in and put the seedling in it. See I do love our planet, I recycled the plastic container. The seedling is a European Larch and will spend the next year in the planter. Then we will have to figure out where we what it. It will most likely go in the back yard to give us even more shade.

Here it is in it seedling glory.And here is what the European Larch will look like all grown up.

Oh and we have an extra European Larch seedling if anyone wants it, just let me know and it's yours!