Gardening & Aftermath

Don't let the "peat moss mask" fool you; he's still a mere four-year-old.

Over the weekend we (and by "we" I mean "primarily my spouse," since I was stuck inside doing my job) installed a new planting bed for the few vegetables we're going to try to grow this year. After last year was a complete failure, we decided to make a garden in a more suitable location. We used a method called "lasagna gardening," where we built a bed by alternating layers of peat moss and mulch/compost material. It's small--only 4 x 8--but we need to start small given our past degree of success. Hopefully, we'll double or triple the operation next year.

Oh, and we're getting a new roof. And the shed door is completely broken, so we're leaving it up hoping that we don't have a storm right out of some Kate Chopin story. How does one even begin to go about fixing a broken shed door??

Little Red and the Little Boy sure do enjoy finally being able to be outside. Little Red has sampled just about every kind of substance he could find--including some that would make you shudder. We predict that in a few years, he'll be the one who suddenly appears on the roof of the shed, trying to retrieve a bird's nest.

There's plenty more, but that's for a different post.