garden

My mom and I made a garden today (with some crucial familial help - here's your shout out, Kyle...everyone give him a round of applause). It was a lot of work. I am so tired from the process, that I won't be able to write much longer.

We had to dig, do some more digging, and then pull up the grass in the area. This is a lot harder than it sounds. Then we had to transport the grass chunks into other parts of the yard, all the while being cognizant and protective of worm safety. There is clay in the ground here and clay sticks to everything and is very heavy. I lifted about 10 pounds with every step with all the mud/clay that accumulated on my shoes. Not to mention what got stuck to the shovel and then how difficult it made it to literally pull large chunks of grass up from the ground. My lower back is already sore, as well as my right hip from thrusting my weight onto the shovel. I'm kind of dreading how my body will feel in the morning.

But now we have a beautiful 16 foot by 4 foot (?) garden, filled with fresh peat moss and organic soil, just waiting for seeds to come and be planted in it. It was also pretty nice to be outside doing manual labor and getting dirty and working down in the soil. A nice change of pace for me. It took 3 full hand washings to get the dirt out of my fingernails.