This was my day

So, we did this today: Tomorrows Project so long as the $$ holds out – How to Build a Raised Garden Bed – The Home Depot – Garden Club http://shar.es/mo5yu I love when I make plans and they happen!

but first, let me remember this, since FB doesn’t exactly archive my status updates lol

sometimes I hear some one banging around downstairs and I still think it’s my mom banging in the ceiling in the garage to come have a smoke with her. She’d also sing “knock two times on the ceiling if you want me, ttwice on the pipes if the answer is no” once I got down there. Silly memories.

Five hours ago:

Just bought 6x40lb of top soil and compost. Have one bag at home plus equiv of 3 bags in various pots. My garden is coming together

Four hours ago:

weeding… quickest way to weed without chemicals or fire? Yah, I can’t find one either. I want one of those mantis tiller things! I’ll be outside in the scorching sun with a hand rake. Ugh.And my gloves? They were either sized wrong, or there is a HUGE difference between med & large, b/c med is tight and actually kind… of hurts and lg is freaking huge and useless.

Right now:

The box is put together (finished around 2PM). We used 6 1″x4″x8′ – three of them cut in half and a piece of scrap wood from the trash bin at Home Depot for the corner braces. Michael did most of this work. I hadn’t planned on him doing it, but he got to be a man today and play with power tools, something we rarely do. My box is only three sided, as the fourth long side is the side of the house. Mistake? I hope not!

After the box was built I weeded about 1/6 of it (hence the weeding FB status) and then Michael did a little more than I did but on the other side. Then he went to Lowes and bought a hand tiller and finished it in about 20 minutes.

I laid newspaper to block the weeds from regrowing. Filled it with my 7 bags of compost & soil… Michael is picking up about 6 more bags of top soil for me after Dorian’s guitar lesson.

I already moved four pumpkin plants, should have waited though. Waiting on the rest of the soil to move everything else.

So, that was my day!