You're holding a 200 poundish rock like it's a baby. Gently cradling it, even. Doesn't even look like you're straining. Are you sure it's not one of those fake Hollywood rocks? Looks pretty clean and dirt-free to me. When you're done with that farm, I'll hire you here. Deal? I'll do the chain sawing, you do the rock hauling. But I get to help dig.
Speaking of digging, I did manage to get in a couple of hours of heavy-duty weeding. That is with 4 pronged fork and then back on hands and knees to break up the clots and get out the weeds, and back to standing to use the fork... It finally rained enough to get through the clay ground. Hoping for some more weeding tomorrow. Perhaps out around the perimeter of the veg. garden and IN it - which will be much easier than weeding the wild! Plucked our first 4 snow peas today. Positively THRILLING! Thanked them of course, as I do whenever I pluck from our garden. For you gardeners out there, if you've never read the Findhorn Garden book - do. It's a treat. Lettuce is the best it's ever been. I finally know what Arugula is. A spicy add to a salad. (It was always part of our Mesclun mix, but I just didn't know which it was. So I bought a packet of Arugula seeds this year to see if that was the taste and YES! That's it!) Beans are a bit slow, but then, we've had so very little sun. And grasped a few of the wild blackberries that are now ripening all over the place here, small and tart to the tongue. Soon it will be time to put out the Japanese Beetle traps. They DECIMATE the bean plants. I spend hours every year plucking them off the plants and dropping them in old pickle jars full of water. Hundreds of them. Literally. Even with the traps.
