Breaking Ground

We began this weekend to break ground on the new garden.  The old garden finally was turning up black dirt, and awesome veggies... but it was in the middle of the jungle, and filled with snakes, and rocks... and no one was willing to suit up just to watch me chase copper heads with a pitch fork.  (Including me)  So our huge front yard, with nothing but lawn and weeds, and dead Mimosa trees, is finally being turned into something useful.

The budget is still extremely tight for this whole project.  In the dream world, I'd have that white picket fence, raised cedar beds, and all of the trimmings.  In the real world we're pinching pennies for chicken wire, and breaking blisters to hand till the sod.  I'm just happy to have my fingers in the dirt once more, especially after such a horrid winter.  And I'm even happier to not have the company of so many snakes and rocks, especially the snakes.

It's exciting to see your land transform, to see things improve.  To know that so much hard work will pay off in the end.  Seeing the kids learn, and experience, and grow with the land.  I'm a hopeless romantic, who watches way too many episodes of Little House on the Prairie.  

Now to figure out a schedule for everything on my plate.  (Without drinking 3 pots of coffee everyday)

~Emily