Diaries

78 degrees, sunny, and calm this morning. While the sheets were drying Colin and I went outside. I transplanted the forget-me-nots, I started from seed in the garage, out to the butterfly garden. I weeded the beds along the driveway, trimmed the dead out of the butterfly bush, and tidied up along the side fence/natural area.

Partly to mostly sunny today with temperatures in the low 80’s. With no breeze it’s hot in the sunshine. I finished up the outside chores, took my shower, put a load of clothes in to wash, and mixed up a batch of oatmeal/chocolate chip cookies to bake this afternoon.

74 degrees, sunny, and breezy when I left for the gym.

From the gym I drove over to Independence, VA which is about ten miles from Sparta just over the VA line. They have their farmers market on Friday morning instead of Saturday. Since I did not have to work today I thought I would go over and check it out. They have roughly 35 vendor tents with flowers, produce, and a few crafts, food, etc. It’s a little early in the season for a lot of produce so they mostly had plants. Since my zucchini seeds did not come up this year I bought three nice plants from the guy who cut down my walnut tree last fall.

I planted those and did a few other garden related things before coming in to shower and eat lunch. It’s a nice day outside with temperatures in the low 80’s but winds are gusting in their usual 10 to 20 mph range.

51 degrees, sunny, and calm this morning when I left for the gym. I made a quick grocery store stop on the way home. Sunny and cool again today and just a light breeze with temperatures in the low to mid 60’s.

I checked on the garden this morning. Looks like everything I planted is coming up except the zucchini. I used the hoe to gently dig the weeds and grass around the taters and veggies and pushed up more dirt around the tater plants. After hoeing out the section for the zucchini I created new hills and planted more seeds. I will wait until the first of June to put in another row of green beans.

The peas and one squash plant in the deck pots are doing great but still no sign of carrots.