Cart it ...

Still not green but working on it... Can you see the house ?

Yeah, yeah I know most of you are almost done with spring but it is just beginning for us. The End of the Rainbow Valley hasn't even really greened up yet.  BUT it is time to start removing some of that boring brown now. Spring sprung for 2 days in a row.  70 degrees has felt sooooo terrific.  And who cares if it's a bit windy despite the fact now everything is covered with pollen/ dust? It's better than that fireplace dust!

It was invigorating to be able to be outside working in the front garden.  I turned on the boom box ( yes we still have ours ) and started removing all  that winter interest. ( alias dead plants) AND there was a lot of winter interest to fill the cart!

Some birds had also added to the plantings by dropping blackberry seed and those are killers to remove. No matter what gloves I wear those bramble stickers get through. I finished about 3/4 of the beds filling the cart to the brim. Enough for one day for me.

That very same garden cart gets a good work out as Natureman uses it also for helping him clear out the barn. After the long winter all that dropped hay by the goats has made a carpet about a good foot deep.  The old barn's head clearance isn't that high to begin with so when you subtract a foot or so even short people have trouble standing up.  Anyhow in addition to the hay there is also the remains of that hay, if you catch my drift.  It's a lot of shoveling sh**.  Natureman has always said he has his own exercise club. This workout consists of filling and refilling the cart with numerous trips back and forth transferring all that hay stuff 'up' to the vegetable garden. This is more than a one day workout. For right now piles of the old hay are dumped and lining the perimeter of the garden.  Once the garden has been roto-tilled a couple times, the hay will be strewn as mulch and those old goat pellets will be great fertilizer. See 'everything' has a use.

We will still experience more cold according to the weathermen but this was a sweet reprieve.  Rain and cold are in the forecast this week. BUT this weekend was a nice gift of hopefully more sunshiny Spring days to come before summer is upon us. We're tired but it's a good tired...