Gardening in a Kilt (Buzz Kidder Canvas)

[Bugbear]

Well... I've not been feeling so well because of my allergies; a headache has been bothering me a couple of days now. I started posting out there in the real forum a bit more. I picked several navel oranges today because it's geting warmer here and toward the end of their season. Guess that's about it for the moment.

On and off today I have been putting organic materiels into that trench. I had put those weed and grass cuttings from yesterday into the trench and spread them out today. I've decided that the best way to break up the bottom of the trench is with a mattock, and I might do that today if I feel up to it.

I used to have raised planting beds taking up most of my backyard, but over the last several months of last year, I cleared all of that out. Now the middle of the backyard is empty and there are planting beds around the edges. I have a row of mature citrus trees along the width of the yard in the very back, and behind that is a block wall. Between the trees and the block wall is about four feet of space, and that is where I put a lot of the blocks and things from the raised beds when I removed them. At some point I will do something with all that stuff, but the trees and the wall hide it for now.

It has been fairly warm today. When I came in from working and sat down I had to get back up and go find a fan. Part of that might be from the headache and allergies, but it has deffinatly been warmer today. At the night the wind tends to pick up as it cools off.

Feburary is almost gone... This year is going by at a bit of a faster pace it seems... I guess this year is a leap year. I went ahead and posted in that sweate (in or out?) thread, then I went right back and removed what I wrote replacing it with "Thin in, thick out," just to be on the record. And just to go on the record in here, I still enjoy wearing a kilt.