wool & stars

Gideon & I vis­ited the new gar­den plot today to check on the over-wintered plants, level the soil, and mark out where the beds will be placed. We also pur­chased the lum­ber to make new raised beds, but haven’t got­ten much farther.

While it didn’t rain today, the ground was com­pletely sod­den and avoid­ing mud was dif­fi­cult. My resolve to pur­chase appro­pri­ate footwear deep­ened… rub­ber boots… must buy rub­ber boots. Here is a photo of the remains of our 2008 plot:
As you can see, we’ve removed all the remain­ing plants (except for the straw­ber­ries which we planted along […]

So much has been hap­pen­ing, such as the ripen­ing of toma­toes (see above) and the mak­ing of pick­les (will write about that soon) and the read­ing of  books (more on that too.) We haven’t been hav­ing the hottest of sum­mers… and there’s been more rain than I remem­ber from years past. On the up side, […]

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