Busy Weekend Beginning

 

The dirt up by the barn being so easy to mud as soon as it get wet, I decided to utilize it this year for growing some of my veggies. Hopefully, at the end of the season, the churned in leftover greenery will boost it somewhat and make it more soil like. Today, after planting planters full of bulbs (tulip, daffodil and wood hyacinth), we planted snow peas and put up frames for them to climb up. Tomorrow, we'll do the same with some runner beans.

I'd started the planters of bulbs yesterday, but once my body had had enough, it was time to quit and do another day. I have so much to do, but my life is ruled by my body and what it lets me do at any given time. The bending, stretching, and lifting yesterday wore me out (and I do it all from a seated position, I'd be falling all over the place if I were trying to stand to do it). 

Mark slipped yesterday, in the red mud, as we were watering everything in, which was what gave me the idea to use the area for ground planting this year. It's already bare, gets well wet when it rains, so it makes sense. 

Being promised a frosty morning, we put everything that had shoots on, inside the building. It's well insulated, so they should be ok. If there's no more frost risk tomorrow, then they'll all get put back outside when we are over there in the afternoon.

I'm hoping to have a couple of helpers, and if so, I'll have them sweeping the dirt up in the building, while I vacuum it up with the shopvac. Little by little, it is getting done. It's a large area and there was a lot of mud to begin with! The weather was definitely NOT conducive to a clean build, but it is what it is. I see the progress every time I'm in there.

Mark, meanwhile, "dropped" a piece of his tractor yesterday, and today figured that it was a welded part where the weld failed, so ... it will be getting re-welded sometime in the next couple of weeks. It hasn't stopped him though, he's been moving mulch from the piles down onto the dirt track, filling in ruts and making it less slippery when it rains.

All in all, our weekend has started well, and hopefully tomorrow will see more progress over on the property.