"The Forest"

Back in 2005 we paid the local conservation authority to plant approximately 700 trees(seedlings) on our property. The planting was very poorly done and for the following 2 months it did not rain! Twenty(20) of them survived!
Today they finally honored a commitment to replant them. I think they planted close to 1000 this time around and I hope they do better. They are of course not very big yet but Kylie already calls it the forest. We planted some poplars(fast growing) a lot of spruce and pine and some hardwoods as well We need rain now, but not until thursday as I have to ride tomorrow!

As I told you, today was a day of work only and that's important to me too. The state of the industry I work in is almost beyond belief. The local plant where I started at more than 24 years ago had in that entire time one small layoff for a period of about 6 weeks total....before this situation that is. Right now they are probably down to about 25% of their staff! Just think, for all intents and purpose Chrysler is going to stop making cars for 2 months....I would not have believed that possible a year ago.

Today I am very proud of my son Peter and I want him to know it!

Tomorrow I will make up for the day off by riding long and following it up with a run. From here on in that will become the weekly staple of my program.

I wish to dedicate day 230 to Dave Pullen, the tree guy, for planting straight rows.

"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The next best time is today"---Anon

“Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does."---George Bernard