April - The Month of Disruption

 

 

Not the prettiest picture you'll ever see, but this is some of what has been keeping me busy and out of the sewing room - much to my chagrin. This is my vegetable garden. It's not clean and definitely in progress. Consequently I'm getting little to nothing done in the sewing room. This week is going to be colder again and wet. Last week, the temperatures got into the mid to upper 70s and I think we even hit an 80 toward the end of the week. Honey Do can't sit still for even a minute, so lots of garden work has been accomplished. I'm getting to the stage that anything physical takes me much longer than it used to. 

So it starts, a type of retaining wall to help with soil retention and the slope of the hill. I added the bricks because there are gaps under it. There are some huge stones that would have taken a miracle to remove so we just left them. They would only have created more holes to be filled.

My FIL and I pulled the weeds. He went and got landscape fabric and Honey Do laid it and moved the dirt from the blue tarp area to the new garden. We also filled the raised beds at the bottom.

 

 

 The raised beds have been planted. One has a variety of lettuce, one has peas and cauliflower, the last has cabbage. Everything else is too early. We have temperatures cold enough this week to get frost. And there is still more dirt needed to fill the new section and the top of the garden.
 

This one is exciting. When we moved into our home, almost two years ago, we found this glider. I want to call it a sweetheart bench because of the heart cut outs. It was as far back in our yard as you can get, so Honey Do brought it up to his shop. I didn't know where I wanted it or what I was going to do with it. I just knew I wanted it. 

 

Over the weekend, Honey Do brought it up to the house. Together we scrubbed it down and placed it in the yard. It's where we take the dogs to play (they get tied up because they don't want to stay in the yard). We stay outside with them and this will now give up permanent seating instead of the little garden bench you also see in the photo (oops!). I've already ordered seat cushions :) Isn't it sweet?

 

There will always be outside chores. Honey Do and I have an agreement when it comes to firewood. He splits it, I stack it. This pile will be moved to an old shed to keep it from getting any wetter than it already is. This is fresh wood, so it will need at least two years for thorough drying to be used in the fireplace. I've move six loads already. Fortunately, there is no urgency to move it.

 

       Another spring project is wrangling the kindling. With all the storms this spring, there is no shortage of branches falling from the trees. We gather them up and they will be kindling for next winter.

 

There has been a little sewing. This is the second Spring Baby Quilt. The third one is well under way, but not finished yet. I love how they are turning out.

 

I'm hoping to get some sewing time in this week with the cooler, wetter forecast.

 

Have a good week.