Eden

Saturday was really lovely. It was bright, sunny and warm and so Sheba and I started our day with a nice long walk.

I feel the change of seasons deeply here. I’m out on the land every day—my land and the expansive forest wherein I walk Sheba—and I don’t have any heat at night, so I notice changes in the weather. In Winter I live indoors. Now I’m outside for most of every day. It’s ideal weather; I can work in a t-shirt and sweater without sweating.

There’s a lot to do around the yard, but there are no deadlines. It’s wonderful to have so many self-determined tasks to engage me. I moved here in October (2017); last summer was my first and I made mistakes in my plantings. Now I know how the light hits my land and so this summer I can correct my errors.

I packed down the planters and discovered I had much more soil to put into each one. I tire easily from endless bending, shoveling, lifting and dumping, so I had to take a few breaks during the day. I found a bunch of large round plastic plant pots when I was cleaning up the shed, so I cut out the bottom, filled them with soil and put them against the fence to use for planting sweet peas and Blueberry bushes. 

I’m calling my vegetable garden, Eden. I actually got to plant Radishes. Imagine that! Actual seeds in ground!  

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Today it’s expected to reach sixteen degrees. I’m going on the large community dog walk and then coming home to do more topping-up of the planters and more actual planting. Spinach, salad greens and Beets go in today. I didn’t turn the fountain on yesterday; I will today. I hope it works. And I’ve got a lot more soil to move. My back is going to break. 

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I watched Leaving Neverland, the doc about Michael Jackson’s molestation of two boys, and I shouldn’t have. Now I can’t get it out of my head. It hurt to watch it. I keep telling myself: Think about gardening, think about gardening!