No it’s not a movie I watched, it’s not a book I read, and
it isn’t a book I’m writing. It is my life story. It seems I’m always working
with some kind of deadline looming above me.
Yesterday we cleaned our yard. It did want to rain a few
times, we got some drops but that was all. Today’s plan was to till my garden.
When I looked out this morning, it was cloudy. The weather people forecast
some clouds but otherwise a beautiful day. I should have known better. These
people know nothing! My barometer is more accurate in forecasting the weather.
After breakfast I went outside. It was cool but perfect
temperature for working in the yard or garden. I got my tiller ready. It
started with the first pull. Great. Everything was set and it would be a
successful day. I transported a couple of bags of Alfalfa pellets (fertilizer)
and a bag of claybuster (to loosen up the clay) in the wheelbarrow to the
garden. I barely managed to spread the Alfalfa and most of the claybuster when
the first not predicted raindrops fell. I say them on the wheelbarrow as they
made dark spots on the yellow color.
I didn’t give up and got going with the tilling. My garden
is approximately 1000 sqft and I raced through it, tilling under the stuff I
had spread. There was still a bag of dry leaves I wanted to also till into the
soil, but I didn’t get a change to spread the leaves. I barely managed to
finish tilling the garden once, when the rain became more than just drops. But
I still persevered. I got a rake and smoothed out the soil, something I usually
do as I till by walking beside the tiller instead of behind it. You don’t want
foot prints and trenches on the soil while it packs down after the tilling.
Well, I made it with the tilling. I had in mind to already
seed some potatoes and onions, but the soil was beginning to get sticky and so
I had to give up that notion. Too bad.
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