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May 17, 2008
Walking
I'm trying to do some every day, now that I have the time for it. One of the few bearable aspects of this place is how close everything is. It's become a huge part of Dave's routine and something we need to take into consideration when we leave. We have to find another place that's walkable.
The walking doesn't always happen. I've been doing a lot of work in the yard the past few days, and sometimes, what I need after a long day of weeding and hauling and digging is to not walk half an hour to get to dinner (and half an hour back). But today is Saturday, and I took the day off from the landscape to wander down to the Saturday Market and see what there was to see.
Not much, it turns out. There's some stuff. I did get an eggplant, some swiss chard and six tiny romaine plants to put in the empty pots on my porch, and I had an awesome peanut butter cookie with a hint of cinnamon in it (note to self: try this at home). And I saw a number of friends downtown, so that was good. But it's still too early in the season for all the fresh produce that starts showing up in mid-late June. However. It's about a 25 minute walk from our house. And on the way back, it's up some pretty serious hills. So I feel I got a decent workout.
And now I'm going to get some potting soil and some more walls o'water because I have seven new plants to transplant and a bunch of seeds to get into the raised garden beds now that I've weeded them and double-dug in chicken manure and organic compost (that was yesterday's job). Along with the stuff I bought today, I'm planting, snap peas, carrots, radishes and this year, pumpkins - I thought that might be fun to try.
What? You thought I was serious about taking a yard day off? Well, I'm not planning to spend all day weeding, for a change. But planting seeds and sticking stuff into pots? That's not really yard work.
Posted by sally at May 17, 2008 11:53 AM
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