Getting It Done

There are only so many hours of light in a day, and less when you have to kinda-sorta keep your body on a later schedule and can't always take advantage of all the daylight. We have ways of getting it done. Here's mine.

I have four of these. Usually I just need one at a time. This one has chicken in it. Fill it up, get outside.

Mammoth sunflowers. Or small sunflowers that will be mammoth. These are for seeds to eat ourselves and feed to the chickens that we don't have yet. That's going to add a wrinkle to the timetable...

Corn! 67 of them today, 30+ to come after they've become a bit bigger in the greenhouse. You think they look too close together, don't you? It's OK, everyone does. They're not, so please don't worry so much. It'll be all right. Really.

Sometimes stopping for a little game of BALLBALLBALLBALL is necessary. Otherwise someone rolls on the little-mammoth sunflowers and chews the corn. I don't know who.

This is my rock bucket. It gets filled as I move along the rows, then gets emptied into the wheelbarrow, which then gets wheeled to the draw where the rocks are dumped. It's pretty much a gravel road in there now.

Checking the seed packet directions is also sometimes necessary to make sure I remember what I think I remember. Yeah, those are alphabetized and sorted by cool and warm season. Sorry.

It's our own compost! This is why referring to the seed packets is helpful. It reminded me that cucumbers, which were planted here, love lots of compost. How is it, I wondered as I got this out of The Mantis, that there are earthworms in it? It's 3 feet off the ground, and I know we didn't put any worms in there. Not that I'm complaining, but how do they do that??

I like to check the fruit trees every day. There will be plums this year, unlike last. Where were my plums last year? I don't know, ask the bungle bees. However, this year plums are coming, and when they do, I am canning some plum sauce.

After all the babies are planted for the day, they need a cool drink.

So does Schnooglie.

So do I.