Spent the whole weekend in the garden. Bliss. The only sticky point was when a neighbor sneered out “raking on Easter?” Fortunately, I was in a really good mood and just called back “happy Easter to you too!” with a big smile. She didn’t seem to know what to do with that, and hurried her kids into the car.
I raked the whole lawn, then aerated it. Aerating is awesome, since you end up with little holes all over the yard. So gratifying. I got about halfway through slinging compost on the grass and then brushing it off the blades. That’s heavy work, and my back started to snivel, so I’m out for the day. I no longer have a sense of humor about the whole “my back hurts a little, but I’ll push on through” idea. It’s crap. As soon as I feel an injury coming on, I stop immediately. Otherwise I hurt for a week at least. Not 18 anymore, I suppose.
Also built my raised bed for my garden. It’s going to be larger than any previous garden, yet still small relative to my parent’s efforts. 8′ by 8′. I think that I’ll put stones in to walk on, leaving 4 (approximately) 3′ by 3′ quadrants. Organic Gardening this month had a whole section dedicated to “square foot gardening,” which sounds interesting, but a little chaotic to me. I’m sort of into my little rows of plants.
On Thursday, we had the chimney guys out to install a liner in the chimney which serves our oil burning furnace. I learned all sorts of things about chimneys.
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