May. 29th, 2011

eor: (Bleeding Heart)
(Posted late, this was actually written this morning.)

Yesterday while taking a break in the garden I was watching a bumblebee bumble along, doing his job for the flowers. Let me tell you friends, this wasn't any ordinary bumblebee, this was God's own bumblebee, and I ain't kiddin'. If you look at your thumb, tip to first knuckle, the bee was probably larger than what you're looking at.

It was fun to watch this epicly proportioned bee servicing the little tiny purple flowers that are now in bloom. He would fly to each flower and as soon as he grabbed ahold, he'd stop flying, the flower and entire little plant would lean over until the bee was upside down, nearly on the ground. As soon as the bee let go, the plant would pop back up. This routine was then repeated for each flower. It was funny to see.

It was a busy day in the garden yesterday.

There is evidence the woodchuck is back. He nibbled on a few of the radish tops and cleaned off the ends of most of the pea plants. He seems to favor pea plants. This is not good news for the garden. If he starts to see our garden as a deli we won't have much left in a week.

However, the herbs are coming along fine. Thyme, orgeano, spearmint all seemed to overwintered well and are lush and big. The berry patches look like they are headed for a heavy harvest. The garlic is going along well. I got the polebeans and one row of bush beans planted yesterday and hope to get more planted today, if I'm capable.

I took a completely graceless fall yesterday. I ended up on my back in the firepit with the full wheelbarrow on top of me. It probably looked worse than it really was. I was able to get up and finish the day without a problem. Considering I wasn't seriously injured, I wish it had been videod because the look of surprise on my face as I went over must have been hilarious.

Today is another story. I have one set of bruises just below my shoulderblades that make sitting back in a chair undesirable. All the musculature from there down to my lower back doesn't want to do much. I started out the morning genuflecting to reach things below waist level, but it's starting to loosen up now.

In more exciting news, we had our first harvest last night. I thinned one row of radishes, so we had radishes with supper and later made radish top soup. Still haven't tried the soup yet, but it smelled good.

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May. 29th, 2011 08:54 pm
eor: (lilac)
So, apparently the way to avoid pain when you sit down in a chair is not to sit down all bloody day.

Today was a gorgeous sunny day with a few fluffy white clouds and a bit of breeze in the afternoon just to make it more pleasant.

Had a lovely breakfast at home and finally got moving at about 10am. Proceeded to the garden store and bought seedling lettuce, peppers, thyme, rosemary, and some soil to cover a rocky messy bit in the garden.

Came home and worked in the garden forever. Well, only until 6pm or so. Planted 100+ pepper seedlings. The vast majority of these are my late start seedlings, I don't expect them to survive, let alone yield any peppers. I did get 24 pepper seedlings from the nursery and one mostly grown ancho pepper plant. I also got the herbs planted in one of the railing boxes and the lettuce spread between a railing box and a small patch in the garden. Derien planted another row of bush beans where I had placed the acquired soil, planted a bleeding heart, and dug a lot of dandelions, burdocks, and other undesirables out of the planting areas and the lawn. At the end of it all I mowed the lawn, primarily to keep the dandelions down to a dull roar.

Our upstairs neighbor gave us some quahogs from a haul he had dug with a friend. For supper we warmed up our radish top soup and made steamed clams. The clams were astoundingly good and the soup was far superior to our last batch (I now consider the recipe ready for prime time).

A very productive day and a very productive weekend. I am extremely tired and my back is still pretty sore, but it certainly didn't keep me from moving.

Oh, are lilacs are blooming too.

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