Progress

After a long, bittersweet day at our rowing conference championships Saturday, I was ready to focus on the garden on Sunday. I "slept in" to 7:30 am (I usually get up at 5 am or earlier during crew season), made myself some coffee, two fresh fried eggs and a slice of homemade bread toasted with butter, sugar and cinnamon. By a little before 9 am I was out in the yard, spade in hand, turning over some more soil.

The chickens love it when I'm turning soil. They stay right there picking out the worms as I turn each bit. I turned for a couple of hours and then took a break to go get my hair cut. While I was gone, April planted one of her avocado plants she's had in a pot into our yard next to our drive way. She had to dig pretty deep to properly plant it. In doing so she found a bunch of bricks really deep in the dirt (~3-4 feet deep) and found a whole bunch of old glass bottle bits and even found a whole glass bottle. The first pic is of the whole finding and the second is of the whole glass bottle:




I mostly just turned earth to get the soil loosened up. The sun should dry things out such that I can do a lot of planting Tuesday evening when I get home from work. I did eventually tire out enough that I ended up in my hammock. As I was dozing off, my cat, Bo, decided to jump up and join me. I swear that cat gives off sleep waves.



The chickens stayed outside of their coop the whole day starting when I came out just before 9 am and finally walking back into their coop around 7:30 pm while April and I ate dinner outside. We should have some nice healthy eggs today.

It's supposed to be close to 80 degrees today and I rode my bike into work. Woo hoo! No gardening tonight, though, because I am meeting up with a few of my friends from high school. It will probably be the closest I get to having a 25th year reunion.

I leave this post with a parting shot of our chicken, Rosie, posing on our clothesline pole: