Thursday, April 26, 2012

Gardening Is Good Exercise!

Weight: 211.4

Ate at Ponderosa yesterday.  Had Beef Tips with onions and mushrooms.  I have always hated mushrooms--but I ate these and actually kinda enjoyed them.  My tastes are changing!

I also had salad, some cooked cabbage, a fried chicken breast (I pulled off the skin and breading), green beans, honeydew and canteloupe.

Then we went to Wal-Mart and I bought some strawberreis, blue berries and black berries, as well as some globe grapes.  I ate all those yummies. 

I worked very hard on the garden yesterday. 

When I got home about 8:45 last night, I made six scrambled eggs with jalepenos, garlic and some mozzerella cheese.  I also had a bunch of cashew butter.

Most of it is sitting in my stomach as I'm processing through all that cheese and cashew butter.

Here's some of what's going on in my garden:

Ignore the square foot numbers, those were just estimates from an original measurement that we later discovered was innaccurate.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v420/BenjaminRogers/GardenLayout2012.jpg

Here are more pictures:

My daughter Naomi planting while I was helping pull a chunk of old foundation out of the ground with my truck.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v420/BenjaminRogers/IMAG1041.jpg

Planting and my new tiller visible on the left.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v420/BenjaminRogers/IMAG1042.jpg

Obvious difference between the "pre-tilled" and the "post-tilled" with the new tiller.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v420/BenjaminRogers/IMAG1043.jpg

The new rows..
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v420/BenjaminRogers/IMAG1044.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v420/BenjaminRogers/IMAG1045.jpg

Going to lunch after working for 3 hours.  Hot. Sweaty. Sunburnt. Tired. But feeling very much alive. :)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v420/BenjaminRogers/IMAG1048.jpg

A couple shots of me using the new tiller.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v420/BenjaminRogers/IMAG1052.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v420/BenjaminRogers/IMAG1053.jpg

Newly tilled ground.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v420/BenjaminRogers/IMAG1054.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v420/BenjaminRogers/IMAG1055.jpg

My youngest son -- Wash (4) -- on my buddy's tractor
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v420/BenjaminRogers/IMAG1056.jpg

My two youngest -- Wash (4) and Jim (5) -- on my buddy's tractor.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v420/BenjaminRogers/IMAG1057.jpg

My helpers: Benjer (8), Naomi (11) and Rene'e (14).  This was late in the day and they were working hard to finish one more row so we could go home.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v420/BenjaminRogers/IMAG1058.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v420/BenjaminRogers/IMAG1059.jpg

Same helpers, but you can see Jimmy (5) in the background.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v420/BenjaminRogers/IMAG1060.jpg

Washer, Jimmers, Benjer, Naomi, Rene'e all visible--my wife in blue holding my buddy's baby and talking to his girlfriend.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v420/BenjaminRogers/IMAG1061.jpg

The newest 5 rows planted.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v420/BenjaminRogers/IMAG1062.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v420/BenjaminRogers/IMAG1063.jpg

The unplanted area ('L'-shaped with a notch behind the ashes from the fire pit.  That notch is where my chicken coop will be located.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v420/BenjaminRogers/IMAG1064.jpg

Parting image of the 5 rows and and the finished corner we planted today.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v420/BenjaminRogers/IMAG1065.jpg

Here is the layout superimposed on the image of what's left to plant:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v420/BenjaminRogers/PlantingPlan.jpg

There are some "complimentary" plants that are intermingled in these plans that aren't shown.  And my paperwork with all those details is elsewhere, or I'd share them.

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