Monday, April 14, 2008

A Long Rainy Weekend


















We had such a busy weekend! We had about twenty guest over at the house for Sunday lunch, so therfore spent the whole weekend cleaning and doing yard maintenance. I don't mind the yard maintanance, but HATE house work! I would much rather be outside, but I guess every now and then I have to break down and clean the dishes and the floor. YUCK! BUT, this weekend it was dreary, cold, and drizzling rain almost all day on Saturady so I guess I was lucky my husband did the yard work part :0) One of the biggest projects of the weekend was building planter boxes for my vegetable garden. Bryon is so good to me sometimes, and also he just loves to build! He built two boxes about two and a half feet high by six feet long. I will be able to transplant my seedling into the area, and maintain it throughout the summer at an elevated height, and near the water source. Yay! A garden is a lot of work! I know this because both sets of grandparents have always had one. My grandparents that used to live in thehouse had a large garden across the back of the yard. After my grandfather died, it became too much for my grandmother, and she had a crew come out and level the ground and plant grass to make it part of the yard again. She was also sharing the garden with my Aunt Janis (her daughter) and Uncle Donald who live right through the woods from our house. They were unable to have a good garden at their house because the deer are so overpopulated in that area. I think now they have picked out a spot that is working for them in their yard. I am so glad Grandma did have the area leveled and re-seeded with grass, because we would have had to. Not many people have a garden of that size in their yard. Papa Joe used to pump water up from the pond to irrigate the garden. There was PVC pipe all the way from the pond to the house on top of the ground. The soil is so very rocky, I don't think Papa could have buried the line on his own. He would have had to rent some equipment I would think. I will look and see if I can find a picture of that to post. Not sure I will be able to though.....












Back to my vegetable planters though...here are some pictures of the construction, and me being silly. We have bought the soil, but have not put it all in yet. Also, I have nt picked out the color, but know it will be a shade of red. Bryon is about to have a FIT for something red in the yard...

1 comment:

Green Gardener said...

I have since found out from my Dad that there is a buried pipe line under the ground from the pond all the way up to the house. We may have to check into re-hooking that up!