get your rocks off

This afternoon was sunny again, so once again I went out back to work in the someday garden. Not being contented to just pick up the little bits of glass and garbage, I started pulling up railroad ties. I got distracted and started moving some of the chunks of granite. The first piece I moved must have been in excess of 300lbs. Where I wanted it was three feet or so up a slight grade. It took a while to move, but my friend Archimedes had it right. I didn't need any alien technology, just a few simple levers. After that I moved a smaller piece, probably 150lbs, which had to be lifted a couple feet then moved about six feet. After that I moved three other smaller pieces, two of which are sitting up on top of others now waiting for a final resting place. The area is starting to shape up. It's almost possible to see the potential of a nice place now. It still takes a lot of imagination though.

We have six little sprouts of garlic in one of the beds. I haven't gone out to the front to check on the bed by the road yet. I hope we don't have a cold snap now that it's been so warm, the growing things won't appreciate that. Nothing in the forecast indicates it'll even get below freezing in the next week. That's really unusual for this time of year around here. We usually end up getting snow in late March or the first of April.