On Saturday morning I was up at 5AM and got the post up. Then I started making more granola for breakfasts. I got chores done and waited for the granola to finish.
I’d offered the feverfew on BuyNothing and someone was coming out to dig it, and the Anne raspberry runners. So once the granola finished, I headed outside to weed the Anne raspberry.
This was one of the jobs my helper friend kept done: weeding and pruning this bed. You can barely see the little runners across the front of the bed, so I started pulling grass roots out and cutting down/off dead wood. She was due around 8:30AM.
She didn’t show up but she had originally said 9AM. And I had said I wanted to get to the pastures by 9AM. So I kept weeding.
She showed up just after 9AM and I had nearly finished the bed, filling 2 of the big sleds. So I asked her to dumped them when I finished, and she dug up all the little runners around 3 sides of the bed. Then I spread amendment. I didn’t have any hay for mulching up here, so that will have to wait.
Another slightly better shot of the half open crabapple
We picked up and put the stuff away and headed over to dig the feverfew. That only took a couple minutes and we talked about her kids (the youngest 7 now, just born when we met, how did that happen??), her gardens (she has a 16’ x 30’ hoophouse, so jealous!!), and chickens (she has a flock, I don’t).
East lilacs – just opening
She left about 10AM and I finally headed to the pastures.
I collected the heavy fencing bucket and some wire and started down the south side of the back 40. It took me about 1½ hours to walk it and do repairs.
Old North garden – Virginia bluebells
The poison ivy was very much in evidence this time around and so I put everything in the washer and got in the shower for the last of the dish soap shampoos and washes.
I was so exhausted when I got out I had to sit down for 45 minutes before I could finish getting dressed, etc. Once done, I sat for a while longer and made something to eat. Rested a while longer and finally gave up and went to bed at 2PM.
Big garden – garlic is doing well
I woke at 5PM and made something to eat. Then I watched movies until 10PM. Sleeping in the afternoon like that trashes my sleep.
MacIntosh apple – buds just opening
White lilac buds
On Sunday it’s to rain all day. I hope to clean up the kitchen, finish the bills/budget, tend the seedlings and water them, and rest. We’ll see…