One if by land...

OK. I'll admit it: We are, by nature, procrastinators. And I mean that in the nicest way. Quite frankly, we are adrenalin junkies. Until the pressure is on, we are distracted and less than productive.

And so we waited for some signal, like Paul Revere: "One if by land, two if by sea." And while our shot may not have been "heard around the world", it still reverberates in my ears.

One loud shot. A wake up call. Only the message was not delivered by Paul Revere. Instead, it was UPS. Our trees arrived Friday: 8 boxes...600 trees!

And so, the pressure is on. The water tank is in place. The plumbing is ongoing.

We are scrambling to locate tree tubes and limestone, and of course, shovels. And for the next week, like the Patriots, we will be caught up in battle, because mother nature is playing some very strange tricks on us with the weather.

So we will labor in the sun for the next few days, and then we will probably freeze for a while. But whatever the weather, those trees will go in the ground.

That's the thing about procrastinators: They tend to get things done.