Garden takes shape

This weekend we got the garden into better shape. Colleen took care of making the rows, moving around the dirt we had delivered and doing some planting. I put in the posts for the fence we are putting around the garden. Setting up the garden for the first time is hard work. More then poor city-folk are used to. But we hope to be able to pick our own fresh organic vegetable this summer and fall.

Next we install the fence and the gate.

Colleen also set up the super for the bees which we should receive tomorrow. If our bees don't get abducted like aliens like is happening around the world right now. Then after several months, we should be able to get our own fresh honey.

Preparing the garden

Our son-in-law drove his tractor over to our house to prepare the area for our vegetable garden. Then, a few days later, temperatures were down in the 30's and 40's and are going to be in the teens at least one night this week.

Tomorrow, we will be getting some soil delivered for the garden - the soil here is too rocky for what we need.



This evening, we saw a luna moth on our dining-room window. Seems to be the same feathery guy that is on the Lunesta commercials. Or not.

The other day, we passed this little lady on our way back home from The Walmart. OK, maybe not so little. She was probably 5 feet tall at the shoulder.

I also got a chance to poke a stick at this creature - tried to save its life by getting it off the road before some local yokel came along and ran over it or shot it. Later, this one or a relative was dead on the side of the road.