Gardening

Though we've returned from our little weekend away and celebrated our third anniversary (hip hip hooray!), I'm taking the rest of the week off trying to get caught up on life in general. It's a little overwhelming at times, though also very satisfactory, working on the enormous list of Things I Put Off Over the Past Six Years When I Was Running a Magazine, trying to knock them out one at a time. Every day I've worked from about 8am to 8pm, and the list only seems to grow longer. A few extra days off? Hah. I need a year. (Though who doesn't?)

Today I finally accomplished one of our biggest to-do's, at least: buying a truckload of compost and working it in to our now hugely expanded vegetable bed. It took hours to buy it, unload it (with the help of a very helpful friend), spread it, and turn the soil. The rest of the day will be spent on paperwork, but tomorrow morning I'll buy the peat and mulch to top it off, Sunday get all the seedlings, maybe Monday the patch of grass I've been wanting to put in for over a year. It's really nice to see it coming together finally, even if I'm two weeks late doing it.

Amusingly, Koko was dancing in the dirt almost the whole time, but somehow I managed to end up dirtier than he was! I looked like a coal miner. Even my teeth had dirt on them, as the husband noted, and now the shower needs scrubbing from all the dirt that came off me. Hilarious.