The Giving Trees

This post is named after one of my favorite books by Shel Silverstein. It's all about a tree that grows up with a little boy and gives it's branches to play on, and gives it's shade for a break from the sun, and later in life gives it's limbs to build a house, until in the end it is nothing but a stump, and a place for the boy, now an old man to sit. Amazing book for children.

As you see from this picture, our trees are very giving. This was taken a week ago when the leaves first started falling. They've only just begun to really FALL! Ha, get it? I feel my blisters starting and I haven’t even starting raking, err, I mean poor Dave, his blisters are going to hhhhhhurt.

We'll wait to rake until the end of fall, where we’ll pile them in the garden to mulch. They start out 4 feet high, but slowly over the winter, I put them in the mulch pile, turn them and by spring we will till them into the garden. Mulching is cool.