January 31

          I had a cold for a couple days and didn't feel like planting.  I still have that cold, but it's warm and almost sunny outdoors, so Rose and I did some garden mulching (newspaper and cardboard in the paths to keep down weeds), and then planted an alder.  I put it in on the river side of the tractor road that heads uphill form our "pasture" (the pasture is where we've put the majority of the alders so far).  
          At this point I was at 30 trees planted out of 31 days.