Came in last night at 10:30 pm, picking rocks up in the grain garden until it was too dark to pick them out. Tried to make the asparagus trenches with the 1-bottomed plow, but it only dug about 2 inches, so got stuck in with the pick-axe but realised that this was going to be a full days' job, and it was far too hot yesterday in the sun, so switched to rock-collecting instead. Put the hosepipe out with the sprinkler as the sesame seeds we planted are too fragile to break through the dry earth crust, so need to be watered until they make their appearance. Also filled a new trough for the cows on the other side of the pasture, although they seem to prefer the poopy, stagnant water from the pond.
Put up the hammock and lay in it for a short while yesterday afternoon. Was just laughing and laughing as Sargeant always jumps up to lie with me, then Rosco put his head over the side and I thought whoops, this is going to tip me over, and Anni came up on the other side, so I helped her up which rocked us like crazy. Something caught her eye and she launched off it, sending me rocking so much I nearly tipped over, Sargeant being a real trooper staying put. Herbie and I tried it this morning, and it broke again and we landed on our backs on the ground - dammit. Have to wait 'til payday to get chains to attach it properly so that it can take our combined weight. Then it was back to work in the garden, weeded all the grass out of the lavender and collected more rocks from the permanent part of the farm garden.
This morning Herbie put a huge rock on the plow and re-furrowed the slots I'd tried to make, a little deeper, but will still have to shovel it out more. He suggested I use the loader on the big tractor to load manure, which I'd dug with the spade yesterday as well, filling the back of the buggy. Bought a whole lot of heirloom tomatoes and some other vegetables on Wednesday, which are still in the truck as the buggy is still full of manure.
My 12 beautiful long-stemmed red roses, delivered every year I've been in America ! Am I a lucky girl, or what ?? Talking to Herbie this morning I commented that they hadn't arrived this year, and he replied that they would come today. The past 9 years they've arrived in the days before, but today they arrived on time and the delivery lady said, Happy Birthday, I've been here before, yup, every year around this time !
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Misty Bland
6/12/2013 03:46:01 pm
Happy belated birthday, sorry I missed it. Been a bit slack and run off my feet. Your roses look lovely.
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