Happy Friday the Thirteenth
Yeah, it’s been a while. Theoretically it is almost summer up here. But Spring was, quite literally, a wash-out. So, so much rain. Good thing for coming out of a drought, good thing for everything being green. But I got the boat out of storage on May 1, with the intention of getting it on the lake … and it started raining. And kept raining. Water came up enough that even though the dock was in, we had to pull all the dock boards off before they floated away. Eventually they let water out of the lake, but it was still miserable and raining, with the exception of one work day or so a week.
The best weekend we had was Memorial Day weekend, where it only rained on the Saturday… but I never do anything on the lake when it gets holiday busy, and using the ramp to put the boat in would have been a nightmare. So instead that weekend I got five yards of mixed top soil and compost (one F-150 truck load at a time), and shoveled that into our backyard raised beds. Yeah, about 6000# of shoveling over 3 days. But in the short breaks of non-rainy weather since then, I got all of the plants that Marcia started indoors in March and April, planted into the freshly filled beds:
Under the bird netting in the foreground, it’s mostly carrots, leeks, and beets seeded. The rest of the beds have an assortment of tomato, pepper, and squash plants.
Between that and other issues, the boat is still here in the back yard. Eventually I might get it into the water, but that’s not critical to our well being.
One upside is that the Spring color parade in our front yard has been in full swing, most recently the Rhododendrons:
Leave a Reply