June 11, 2012

Settling In

I suppose this is still our normal as we have spent our last two summers out here so we have just fallen right back into that same routine we have had the past couple of years.

The dog lets herself out in the morning out the back door where the screen does not latch properly and she is roaming around most of the day. The cat we hardly see, but she checks in every so often. The kids disappear into the forest and come back when they are hungry (and rather dusty) and all is well.

For the majority of the last two days, we have worked on getting the garden in. It's pretty big! And I really know nothing about gardening and planting and thinning and all that, but figure Ma & Pa Ingalls could do it without any Utube videos so so should we!!!! But honestly, I am holding the cut up potato wondering if the growing eyes point up or down. So, I did a little of both and laid the rest on their sides!

The kids and I picked A LOT of rocks out of that area while Scott was rototilling. Now, let me just say that he said he was going to rototill the garden and was going to borrow someone's “machine”, I took that as a regular rototiller, like the ones you would use in your backyard. Oh no! Scott shows up with the rototiller on a trailer!! It was THAT big. 4 giant tractor tires. The works. Of course, there was some trick to getting it running so he actually had to drive it out to the garden while it was running. By the time I got there, it had quit. Scott's solution was for me to hop in this other tractor, pull the rototiller tractor and then it would get started. So, after a little Tractor 101 on my part, it actually worked and Scott finished rototilling the whole garden. If you know Scott, you will know that THAT was just not going to be good enough, with all the bumps and lumps of dirt, uneven ground, etc. So the next thing I know, he's in the other tractor with some sort of metal dragging unit behind riding around in circles to smooth out the garden area.

It's a lovely space.

I hope SOMETHING comes up that we can eat!!