Work is Fun

This is the best time of the year, in my opinion.  Although I have seasonal allergies, I just love springtime.  I take all of my many medicines and brave the outdoors.  The weather is just so crisp in the mornings and somewhat breezy and cool in the evenings that I just can’t help but love this season.  This is the time that I can’t wait to spend my weekends in my garden.

I usually plant tomato and cucumber plants every year right around the end of March.  I have two raised garden beds that have to be prepared before I can plant my crops.

Over the weekend I began weed-pulling.  I started out just raking through the gardens, but I soon realized that there were some huge roots that had taken over my garden from last year.  Those pesky weeds had grown all the way through both of my beds and had to be cut out.  I thought that my gardening would only take me a few hours.  It turned into a whole day event.

I pulled and shoveled and pulled some more until every last weed and grass root was gone (and every last muscle in my body hurts).  I ended up spending three hours alone on one of my gardens.  Who knew that weed-pulling would take so much time and effort? 

Before too long it was 5:00 in the evening, so I headed into the house to shower for dinner.  It was a good thing I decided to go out for dinner because I surely didn’t feel like cooking.

Even though I spent a great deal of time on my garden, my yard work was still not finished.  I noticed that I had an abundance of little ant hills all over my yard.  My neighbor told me that in order to get rid of two ant hills at one time, all I had to do was scoop up one mound and dump it on top of the other.  The two different ant colonies would fight each other until death.  I wonder if that actually works.  I will have to try that this coming weekend.

Another task I would like to complete would be cutting my front bushes.  My poor overgrown bushes need to be pruned.  I thought about letting my son help me with that task, but the last time he cut my bushes, they were uneven and way too short.  I guess that job will have to wait until next weekend.

I still have a few other jobs that need to be done around my house.  I have to spread all of the bark over all of my flower beds.  First, I’ll need to replace all of the weed block paper that I put on my garden beds a few years ago.  I have noticed that weeds are starting to grown up around all of my plants, so looks like I’ll be adding that step in the process as well.

Oh my goodness.  Did I actually say I LIKED this time of the year?  Now that I think about it, I just added more work to my day.  Gee whiz.  What was I thinking?