Progress...

[digitS']

The calendar and the plants drive me :/. Since I start so many plants, they begin to determine what it is that I'm doing with myself.

I have said, and there is way too much truth in it, that I will do zero work unless something will suffer as a result of me doing nothing. Some of you may remember that as a small boy, I thought I was going to be a dairy farmer. It was more of an expectation than a "wish." Dad said that i had to learn to do chores. Chores had to do with critter care. They needed to eat. We tended their pasture and grew a hay crop.

In school, I wouldn't learn anything that I was supposed to learn unless I was coming up against some sort of deadline. I did learn that I couldn't push myself too hard. All-nighters were absolutely no good for me. I once tried something like that and went in for a test -- I choked

! I was lucky to be able to remember how to spell my name!

Stefe

 

[skeeter9]

Always good to know yourself, Steve!

 

[vfem]

Hooray!

Doesn't it feel like its taken forever this year to even be able to get started?

We finally have a break in the weather, so I got hubby to take Wednesday as a personal day from work, so we can work in the garden ALL day!!! Its so sad we have to hit it so hard, and all at once since the weather and our schedules won't cooperate. :/

 

[the1honeycomb]

:tools I am so ready to start planting if my girls haddn't showed up to do all the labor for me ( I'm post surgery and can't for a month)
I would be going crazy right now with this beautiful weather!!!! they set up a lounge chair in the garden and I point and supervise!!!
have my cut milk jugs ready for any late frost! but the majority of the work is done!! come on SPRING :mow

trust me not getting your hands in the dirt is not all it is cracked up to be!!!