Approaching the end of May and.....

.....What have I been doing?  This photo may explain some of what I've been doing.......

I've also been getting acquainted with the new-to-me lawn tractor and have been remembering to duck under the low branches in the orchard.  

I found the sock-in-process.............  

.....that I started two years and one month ago.  Crazy.  Oh well, sometimes life gets in the way of life.  At least I'm ready to start a relaxed Summer of Socks 2013 with a project at hand.  

I've also been re-reading a number of J.D.Robb's stories.  Last night I enjoyed reading an on-line novella from Wen Spencer in her Elfhome universe.  I do so wish she would write more in the A Brother's Price universe...but that is unlikely.  Sad.

This weekend's largish project is to build new vegetable garden beds.  The wooden boards of the garden boxes are beginning to break down and the boxes really aren't spaced properly for the newish mower.  Not to mention ..... they  likely suffered a similar two years and one month interval of not much attention.  So, I'm experimenting with the cardboard/hay-grass/soil method of layering a (slightly raised) garden.  Our soil is so, so rocky that digging in is not a viable option.  I've got the cardboard, saved from earlier this spring.  I've got the hay-grass, mowed yesterday, that I only (!) need to rake up and transport.  And the soil.  That's my next decision, which I think will result in shoveling no matter what.  More muscle burns more calories, right? 

 

Have a safe and relaxing weekend!

 

 

Comments

[Stacey]

Looks like Blue was enjoying that spot of sun. Probably glad to see all the snow gone and have Momma home. Oh yeah, shoveling dirt builds muscles. And aches. :D Take it easy and don't try to do too much at once. Maybe you need to trim some of those limbs?

[kmkat]

I think lazing in a warm sunbeam burns mega-calories, too. Or so I 've heard.

[Charlynn]

LOVE the sock yarn! Very nifty!!!!

[kitten]

Silly kitty.
I think about raised beds like that too, but we have no hay and you aren't supposed to put a layer of weeds in your garden intentionally, so...

[Carrie#K]

I want to do what Blue is doing.

If you had, say existing raised beds, how would you do the cardboard/hay layer? Or just the first year?

[Joy]

Cats just really know how to appreciate a nice sunny spot, don't they ;-)

[Cookie]

That is NOT a lawn tractor. :p

Love that yarn! I have a pair of socks like that but with green in place of your purple.

Happy gardening. Are you rotating crops, too? Just thinking about all that makes me tired. *L*