2022-06-26 — Garden State

Happy end of Sunday, folks. 😊

It was an absolutely beautiful day today. Highs were around 79-80. Humidity wasn’t too bad at all. Actually, it was quite pleasant; and there was a decent little breeze.

After 5 p.m.ish for the rest of the night, it was… perfect. 😊

Anyway, I slept in quite late today, until something like 11:30.

Most of the day was spent in the garden with my mom. We took the top layer of crap dirt off the top of one of the grow boxes and put it into a box that had some good compost in it. Then we pulled the rotten wood frame from the same box that had the crap dirt in it (the wood frame was rotten). We put the frame from another box where the rotten one used to be. It wasn’t a perfect frame, rather decayed, but not nearly as badly as the one we pulled out.

Then I pulled the dirt out of the box we stole the frame from and put half the dirt in the box we took the crap dirt from and that received the transplant frame, and we put the other half of the dirt in the box that had received the crap dirt and the compost.

Following all that? 🙃

In place of the box that donated its frame and all its dirt, I put down wood planks that fit the space pretty much perfectly, and then I put the porch swing that was on the back porch and placed it on top of the wood planks. I also grabbed the patio furniture (a table and two chairs) and put it next to the swing on one side and put the fountain on the other side; so now we have a nice patio swing you can sit in and look over the garden and the yard while listening to the fountain. 😊

I was also able to get the patio stones back in place (in the aisles between boxes). I took them out a long long time ago, and the rotten boxes expanded, making it so the patio stones wouldn’t fit back in place. It took a good bit of work, but I was able to get them back in. I also started placing the horse panels around the garden. Once in place, that’ll keep the deer out.

So the garden is starting to look quite nice. 🙂

Oh, and I found the little critter that’s been eating the leaves off the pepper plants, leaving just stalks. 😬 It’s a tobacco horn worm (massive fatty bright green with white stripes caterpillar. Like… 3 inches long. Turns into a huge moth).

Anyway, spent a good little while just… sitting in the garden. Was really nice, honestly. Nice break from all the craziness in my brain and all the… hate and vitriol I see in the news right now.

Love, not hate. Understanding, not judgment. Patience, not anger.

Lift the World

~ stephen