6-6-03: Irons in the Fire

Friday, June 6 2003

9:15pm  Beautiful day! We both got a lot accomplished. David even admitted that he has several major irons in the fire: field garden prep (tilling and furrows this morning), planning the new business, planning this summer’s trip, plumbing & building in the downstairs. I’ve probably left a few things out. I just know that he’s my Superman can-do guy, and he impresses me every day.

I must have been too busy "supervising" to take pictures
of David on the tractor creating the furrows. 

My day was mostly spent in the field garden. After “supervising” David’s furrowing (he runs that tractor like a born & bred farmer) I gathered my supplies: tools, seeds, gloves, and hit the dirt by noon. Sunny and 70’s, but I was more than ready for the heat. Planted corn, sunflowers, peas, tomatoes, indian corn, beans, pumpkins (jumbo & jack o lantern), watermelon, cukes, yellow squash, cantaloupe, and Yukon Gold potatoes.

Long view of the West field garden

Me, complicating my life with some sort of
complex plant-a-potato-in-a-cup method.
Lesson learned:  Just stick it in the dirt!

Also set aside rows to transplant in daffodils (from the front yard) and seed new flowers for cutting purposes. The process was slowed by my inexperience and the need to rake out the grass clumps, but even so it was all in by 7:30pm.

The only thing I didn’t get in was the dill, but that’s ok since I don’t want the forecast rain to wash the tiny seeds away. Possible showers tonight, and showers plus thunderstorms tomorrow—the main reason I worked so late on planting. No sense watering by hand if Mother Nature’s willing to do it!

I’m in bed watching my Wed-Thurs *soaps on video while today’s show tapes in the kitchen. David’s watching his Friday *STNG shows downstairs. The window is open, but it’s so quiet outside I forget until I hear a car or rush of wind. I wonder if it’s raining yet. The air smells so fresh.

Thought I had more to put on paper... Oh right—David had a chat w/neighbor [D] today. Sassy update: Not producing milk, so not ready to birth yet. Land offer: wants to sell pasture to our east, and offered to ‘throw’ Sam in on the deal—3+ acres and a horse for @ $15,000…David told him yes—when we have the money.

*soaps: General Hospital, One Life To Live

*STNG: Star Trek: Next Generation

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