you become excited about your compost. Yes, that's right folks. I opened the bottom door of the barrel and shoveled the most glorious, most beautiful looking compost into my wheel barrow. No rotting food/plant smell indicated it was all ready to go. Exciting! Unfortunately, I don't know too many people to share this joy with. Do you love your own compost? Yah. Didn't think so.
I mixed it up with some other soil and peat moss and put together some containers with bedding plants I had squirreled away in my little greenhouse. I also planted a bunch of seeds. It was supposed to rain yesterday so I thought that was perfect - I'd plant and God would water. So now every thing's nicely wet and we just need some warmth and some sun for all these little seeds. I planted: Texas Bluebonnet, Indian Paintbrush, California Poppy, Flanders Poppy, Celosia, Sunflower, Dahlia, Gladiola, Mealy Blue Sage, Purple Coneflower and more.
And then after about 5 hours of gardening and lots of shoveling I came in for the day. Oh boy. Shoveling really does a number on my lower back! Ouch. I spent the next 2 hours resting and stretching my back waiting for the pain to disappear. Then I did some crochet from the Kyuuto Japanese Lacy Crochet book -I'll post photos when I'm done.
Saturday was spent with Cynthia and Carol poking through the quilt shops and bead shop in Historic Downtown Abbotsford - you can read all about it on Carol's blog (lazy typist aren't I?). When I got home I mowed the lawn and did some gardening.
Oh boy, looking back I didn't realize I had done so much work! I thought I didn't do much this weekend, but I guess I did. Definitely a lot better than the other way around.
What did you do this weekend?
2 comments:
Yup, we love our compost too. It's just like magic, I think. It's almost time to plant seeds here, too, but only in the tires (still freezing out in the open....still a little snow around, too). Big garden plans going on here. Stay tuned to my and Art's blog for the progress on that.
The japanese lacy crochet looks very interesting. I love that kind of stuff.
Oh yay! I'm glad you love your compost too! I bet you get some good stuff with all those animals around.
I love your tire gardens and am so glad you've had success with them. I will be sure to watch your blogs for updates, it's so very interesting.
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