03-13-2005, 04:20 PM
We have been saved by glorious rain in Glenwood. The trees are looking happy. The vines are vining. The flowers are flowering. The ferns are ferning. The air is fresh and clean with no signs of vog. LIFE IS GOOD.
I spent several hours on the tractor today ripping the garden ground, hauling out feet and feet of roots from grass. These roots must be 15 years old at least! It was a great exercise though. I learned to operate the tractor bucket pretty well scooping up loads and loads of those roots and hauling them off to a hole. The clutch is like an old porsche, about 25 lbs, so my things and knees are sore. I imagine my neck and back will make themselves heard tonight.
The carpenter Randy got the roof on the playhouse/tower and the gutter so now we will have water in the tank... finally..... as soon as it rains again. Now I finally get to "decorate" it with bamboo fencing for sidewalls. LIFE IS GOOD.
Alex, the new ranch hand, will be back tomorrow and I plan on having hm rototill the garden area. I will go get loads of the free compost available. We'll dig that in, lots of horse manure (that has been curing a few weeks now), Lime for the PH and a generic vegetable food with trace minerals. Once that is all mixed in well, we will be able to form rows and then put in the fence. LIFE IS GOOD.
I have starts for peppers and corn in my little garden grenhouse starter thingis here at the apartment. The squash plants I did two weeks ago are now over 8 inches high and loving it in ther planter box/raised bed hubby made me. However the peas got about 18 inches long and then shriveled up and died. I think I waited too long to transplant them. Will do some new starts next week after the garden is more ready. I can hardly wait to get the garden productive.
It's still a grand adventure. The work feels good. Only problem is that I find myself tied up every day and not doing the things for friends I would like to be doing. It will all flow together soon enough.
Hope you enjoy sharing the adventure. As always, you are each invited to come see what is happening.
Aloha!
May you live in interesting times.
I spent several hours on the tractor today ripping the garden ground, hauling out feet and feet of roots from grass. These roots must be 15 years old at least! It was a great exercise though. I learned to operate the tractor bucket pretty well scooping up loads and loads of those roots and hauling them off to a hole. The clutch is like an old porsche, about 25 lbs, so my things and knees are sore. I imagine my neck and back will make themselves heard tonight.
The carpenter Randy got the roof on the playhouse/tower and the gutter so now we will have water in the tank... finally..... as soon as it rains again. Now I finally get to "decorate" it with bamboo fencing for sidewalls. LIFE IS GOOD.
Alex, the new ranch hand, will be back tomorrow and I plan on having hm rototill the garden area. I will go get loads of the free compost available. We'll dig that in, lots of horse manure (that has been curing a few weeks now), Lime for the PH and a generic vegetable food with trace minerals. Once that is all mixed in well, we will be able to form rows and then put in the fence. LIFE IS GOOD.
I have starts for peppers and corn in my little garden grenhouse starter thingis here at the apartment. The squash plants I did two weeks ago are now over 8 inches high and loving it in ther planter box/raised bed hubby made me. However the peas got about 18 inches long and then shriveled up and died. I think I waited too long to transplant them. Will do some new starts next week after the garden is more ready. I can hardly wait to get the garden productive.
It's still a grand adventure. The work feels good. Only problem is that I find myself tied up every day and not doing the things for friends I would like to be doing. It will all flow together soon enough.
Hope you enjoy sharing the adventure. As always, you are each invited to come see what is happening.
Aloha!
May you live in interesting times.
I want to be the kind of woman that, when my feet
hit the floor each morning, the devil says
"Oh Crap, She's up!"
hit the floor each morning, the devil says
"Oh Crap, She's up!"