23 April 2018
I've been planting! I'm working on my own little garden on the other side of our property. I'm very excited about it.
I planted a few trees, some lavender and lilacs! I also have one quince. Unfortunately, the elk or deer uprooted one of my trees (they're just little ones right now) twice so I've had to put cages around most my plants.
Also I need to get ride of the patches of poison oak cropping up. But otherwise it's been a lot of fun despite the work. I've actually been enjoying the work (except fetching water-- that wears me out every time). I don't have a hose or power or anything down there. Just the creek and a bucket. The more things I plant, though, the more water I have to fetch. Some day most of these things will be well established enough to not need any extra tending, so I'm looking forward to just enjoying that.
I also have a small rotating blade mower (no power needed). It's pretty hard to work with when there are sticks every where because the blades jam up so easily. But it's not bad when it just zips over the larger expanses of grass.
It's been a lot of hot work (I drip sweat), but it's also very rewarding. I'm just imagining myself down there during the summer enjoying myself by the creek, sitting in the shade...etc. I would love to entertain there, too. I'd need some kind of seating, though.