Our Bones Ache

Oh, my, give us a gorgeous spring Montana day and we get so excited we go out and try to work ourselves to death!!!  Every muscle in my body is screaming and I’ve heard a lot of groaning over in Michael’s corner, too!

Our original garden plot gets a little too much afternoon shade to be very productive but it makes a wonderful spot for plants such as lettuce and radishes.  I love my little Mantis tiller we purchased last spring—used it to till the garden then planted lettuce, radishes, swiss chard, spinach and carrots.  Original garden spot

A couple years ago we built a new garden spot and planted three apple trees there.  The garden soil is poor but we’ve been adding compost and hoping for the best.  This is where I planted the strawberry plants our friend Claire brought me last spring.  I weeded those and the raspberry plants and tilled the rest of that garden.  We may or may not plant anything else in there this year.  The strawberry plants look great and I have blooms Claire—I am so excited!!!

We are building a new garden spot down by the creek—we are collecting garden spots like we collect cars and trucks! This new garden will have all day sun and maybe I can get things such as peas and beans to grow.  Sure hope so—I come from a long line of excellent gardeners—Mom and Dad had a huge garden every year which at the time I didn’t appreciate.  Mom worked outside the home and in the summer would leave things such as a bushel of corn or peas on the back steps for us to husk or shell.  My grandparents had a beautiful garden as does my sister and her husband.  I’ve got to get with the program!!!  My excuse has always been that I live in a climate which doesn’t lend itself well to gardening.  Then Robyn (Claire’s wife) tells me they ate potatoes, carrots and onions from their garden all winter!!!!!  They also get enough strawberries and raspberries to make lots of jam.  There went my excuse!  And by the way, Robyn and Claire’s home is at a higher altitude than ours!

In between all the gardening I did loads of laundry and talked to the longarm sewing machine people.  What Michael and I thought was the problem is probably not the problem.  They had some ideas and I did order a new part so we shall see.

Poor Michael dug many, many postholes today.  Half of these postholes he had to dig by hand due to the location or to rocks.  So, he is groaning, too.

But it feels good to get so much accomplished in a day, doesn’t it???

I love bloggers and people who read our blog.  We received a comment yesterday from BJ saying her husband thought he had the music to Make The World Go Away if we couldn’t find it.  Now how nice is that!!!