frostbite falls comes to my yard

fedex brought me a big box today with a reasonably immoblized mooseberry bush in it...

so i picked out a likely spot and dug a hole deeper than his roots...

unwrapped the aforementioned roots...shaking off the moss they were wrapped in to let him know it was okay to expand them in spring...

and planted him...

backfilling the hole with compost and some earthworms i disturbed during the digging...but we were not done just yet...

gave the roots a shot of water to make sure they stayed moist...

put a wire cage around him...

then went downstairs and got some straw from this year's wheat/rye harvest and mulched him to 1.) keep him comfortable in the cold to come and, 2.)...

to keep him under wraps so these two cannot get their hands on a key ingredient in grandma mooses fudge cake/rocket fuel recipe