The Caleb Tree

I will let this post serve as a reminder of when we planted the "Caleb Tree". 

Our school district gives out pine trees every year to the 4th grade class as a part of the Fourth Grade Foresters USA Project.

I'm hoping that the Caleb Tree last longer than the Robby Tree!  

I planted Robby's pine tree back in 2015 when the lad was tearing up the 4th grade.  

We live in a pseudo rural area so we have our fair share of wildlife come thru the yard.  As a result, I put little fences up around newly planted trees, shrubs, bushes and what not.  

We also have a LOT of hills in our yard, in fact, the only real flat spot is immediately outside of our walkout door as I had them level that when we were building as the only spot where we could have a basketball hoop for our, at the time, newborn baby to play basketball.

As a result of the hills, mowing is quite often an adventure.  One day while mowing the back yard, which has the biggest hills of all, the tractor started to slide towards the pine tree and protective fencing so quickly that I could not stop either the tractor, the slide, or the tractors blades and pulled the whole mess of metal and tiny tree up under the mower deck into a tangled up mess...  

Bye, bye tree.

On the packaging from the tree.

The aforementioned tree!  She's about 1 foot tall as of posting this on 05/24/2018.