Silence before the exhale

I've been running full speed except when taken down by vaccine or medication stuff, trying to recover from losing so much weekend time. I was feeling stretched awfully thin, but the butcher called and postponed, he'd going to come next weekend instead of this weekend. Suddenly everything looks possible again.

The tomatoes are in the ground. The squash is in the ground, except for the summer squash. The main greenhouse is planted. It's been warm! 23-25C during some of the daytimes, and even above 10C some nights. The garden is growing surprisingly fast. I am picking a couple buckets of lamb's quarters for the pigs every day. Things have gone from salad-grazing to chopping-back-huge-amounts pretty quick. We're supposed to hit 27C on Tuesday, so I should do a good water of everything Monday. We're close enough to the solstice that I bet I'll be able to hear things growing.

I appear to be putting in a big deck garden. I really should hook up automatic watering to it. Hopefully it stays warm enough to ripen things!

Really, all I want to do or think about is the garden. I need to powerwash the carport and get the freezers and maybe some shelving set up, freeze a bunch of bacon, I think it's too warm to smoke it.... but I just want to sit in the garden and let its rhythms pull me from one activity to the next.

I really should get up the florida weave for the tomatoes too.

It's nice times, though. I can feel my shoulders coming down from around my ears some. Finally.

Silence before the exhale

I've been running full speed except when taken down by vaccine or medication stuff, trying to recover from losing so much weekend time. I was feeling stretched awfully thin, but the butcher called and postponed, he'd going to come next weekend instead of this weekend. Suddenly everything looks possible again.

The tomatoes are in the ground. The squash is in the ground, except for the summer squash. The main greenhouse is planted. It's been warm! 23-25C during some of the daytimes, and even above 10C some nights. The garden is growing surprisingly fast. I am picking a couple buckets of lamb's quarters for the pigs every day. Things have gone from salad-grazing to chopping-back-huge-amounts pretty quick. We're supposed to hit 27C on Tuesday, so I should do a good water of everything Monday. We're close enough to the solstice that I bet I'll be able to hear things growing.

I appear to be putting in a big deck garden. I really should hook up automatic watering to it. Hopefully it stays warm enough to ripen things!

Really, all I want to do or think about is the garden. I need to powerwash the carport and get the freezers and maybe some shelving set up, freeze a bunch of bacon, I think it's too warm to smoke it.... but I just want to sit in the garden and let its rhythms pull me from one activity to the next.

I really should get up the florida weave for the tomatoes too.

It's nice times, though. I can feel my shoulders coming down from around my ears some. Finally.