Progress?

I can't tell if we are making progress indoors, but I am making progress outdoors.  I spent the entire morning watering every single thing.  No rain in the forecast, and now no rain at all for a while.  Sigh.  

I picked some radishes that I enjoyed raw after that, and shared one with the now graduated, vegetarian daughter.  She doesn't like raw radishes, ha ha!  


Mom came over to take the graduated child out for lunch.  She invited me too, but I could not leave the garden.  

I weeded one entire side of the 45 foot pea fence, weeded all but about 6 feet of the beets (not fun), and started the carrots.  I used the hoe on the back tomato patch, digging out the thistle coming up.  I hope to get the remaining vegetable garden weeding done today, pay bills and file papers to clean up that mess.  

I gifted Mom some homemade vanilla and a handful of those French Breakfast radishes.  She gifted me some empty baby food jars for my rubs and salves I make. 

I found out that Hubby saw the rabbits early morning and shot at them, but I never heard it.  I was that tired.  I am so tired today, that I am debating intentional exercise.  So far, I haven't seen the rodents return.

After a long day in the garden, in between putting laundry out, and then dinner in the crock pot, I loaded the car up and took a load to the thrift store.  That cleaned up a hallway, but there are wine bottles to store now (for future wine making).  I remembered to water my house plants, and trim the roses.  Oh, the weeding needs done in the flower beds too.  I managed to make a trip to the store and purchase some of the items needed for the grad party, but food will wait until later.  I ate dinner at 7:30pm, the latest ever, on the porch.  Hubby worked over and got home around 9:30pm.

Although I was so tired, I washed up the last of our asparagus pickings, and made roasted rosemary asparagus to go with turkey and home canned hot pepper mustard sauce over wild rice mixed with wilted dandelions.  I had a tall glass of nettle tea infusion.

We had rain it the forecast for yesterday and zero on Saturday.  Now the forecast says rain on Saturday.  The day of the grad party, and I was hoping to put up an "easy up" set up the back and front porch with chairs.  Sigh. I should have rented a building for this shin-dig.  I should have, could have, would have, but didn't.  Dang it.  Maybe the weather will change. Then again, I am struggling to get the house cleaned up while tending to the garden. I had a talk with the remaining radish harvest.  I pleaded that they hold off their growth until Sunday, so I don't have to can relish in the midst of the party prep. I'm not sure they listened.