Our Happy Acres

About a week or so ago my wife and I noticed a large part of our giant elm tree appeared to be dying. We immediately feared Dutch Elm Disease, and after meeting with two different arborists this past week we found out that was their diagnosis also. Neither of them gave much hope of saving [...]

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One of the things that made Happy Acres so attractive to us before we bought it was the large, mature trees in the back yard. Someone here long before us nurtured the trees, and allowed them to grow up into the giant specimens they are now. The biggest of the lot are two elms and [...]

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Yesterday wifey and I made a pilgrimage to several of our favorite garden centers, which is a dangerous thing for two plant-loving gardeners to do! A couple of hours and a few hundred dollars later, we headed for home with the truck full of plants.
The main reason we went plant shopping is that we are [...]

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My wife and I went today to a local tree farm to pick out and tag our Christmas tree. This will be the fifth Christmas we’ve spent together, and our third here at Happy Acres. We have chosen to put up a “real” tree each year, decorating it with our combined abundance of old and new [...]

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Most Tuesdays I volunteer for a hot lunch program. We serve meals to anyone who cares to stop in, and this year business has been booming. The shelves are also bare at many food pantries, as the economy takes its toll on more and more folks. Every day I try and remember just how blessed [...]

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