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routine as routine gets
lovely weather lately, sunshine, mid 60s-70s most of the
time. the rain finally went away and things have dried out enough that i can get back to the drainage project. it is much easier to redig than dig the first time. what took me about ten days to reach before i've already passed in one day. the challenge this time around is that there is standing water in a part of the trench and that makes for slippery and sticky clay digging, pretty much have to scrape the shovel clean with a trowel i keep handy for the task every few shovels full. i'd hoped i had the slope set right for drainage just by eyeballing it the first time around and was just about to run the level string and check it when we had the heavy rains that put the pause on. after the heavy rain with much of it slumped i wasn't up to digging again until i recovered from illness and the weather dried out enough. i had plenty of other things to keep me busy... a few more days and i should be back to where i was and perhaps can get the tubes down and it partially filled back in so that if more rains do come again it won't be such a mess. that is the joy of doing things in stages by hand. we don't have an easy way to get any equipment back there and by far, in terms of health for my back, the exercise of digging is much better for me. especially when i can take breaks and watch the dragon flies or have fun observing a crayfish try to get the burrow emptied of debris that i've knocked in... amazing creatures that live so far down in the clay, they follow the water table as it goes up and down and when they surface in the winter/spring months the raccoons try to catch them out... before heading out to dig yesterday i was able to pick another round of dry beans from the plants that have finished up pods lately. those will be drying further inside (as i've found out the chipmunks and mice will raid the box tops once i stack them in the garage. after picking dry beans i enjoyed some nice cherry tomatoes from the vine. they are still going strong with no hard frosts (the golden variety we have planted) but in contrast the sweet 100s gave up weeks ago. i'm still finding plenty of new varieties/crosses in the dry bean shelling. very interesting this year compared to all of the previous seasons. the few gardens i managed to get taken care of for the fall are up and sprouted and look nice with some green cover. i'm so not used to grasses, it looks strange, crying out for a haircut. that's about it for news on the gardens, in recent readings i've continued the Biosphere 2 theme and have enjoyed the various perspectives from the different authors. i have been reading them in order of publication date the most recent was _Dreaming the Biosphe the Theatre of All Possibilities_ by Rebecca Reider. oh, yes, we've finished the canning for the season. plenty of tomatoes stocked up again and some apple sauce and pickled beets. whatchu been upto? songbird |
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