
So I finally got back to working on my garden and WOW is this work!!! I encountered some challenges that made this take much longer than I had anticipated. Oh, and in case your wondering, Kya got her stitches out this morning and though she is still limping a bit, she is doing much better.
Anyway, So I spent many hours working on excavating the grass off of the marked off garden area. I sort of wish I had kept track of the hours, but then again, maybe it's good I did not! I tried very hard to stay in the present moment, but I must say once I got into the rhythm of digging, my mind wondered off to all sorts of places. It was really hard to stay focused on the present moment. Then I encountered my first problem, which you can see in this first picture is a BIG root! After some time, I was able to twist it around and then eventually cut it with my Swiss army knife. Then I

continued digging. I ended up with another GIANT root that was much more difficult to get rid of and because of my limited tools, I borrowed a hack saw from my boyfriend to cut it. Thanks, Honey! And Of course, in the last little patch of grass, there were three more roots! Thank, Mother Nature! They were the smallest, but still took a lot of effort to get them out. This picture shows the Big root at the bottom and the Giant root in the middle. If you look closely at the top are the last three.... yes I know I need to cut my grass! In addition to natural discoveries, I also found lots of unnatural things! Some of which I have posted. This first picture is of a metal toy gun. It looks like a kids toy, but it has to be at least a little old since they have not made metal toy guns in a few years. The next picture is of a fan or propeller type thing.... I'm not really sure! The last is a slab of cement that looks like it held

down a post of some sort. Not very

exciting, but I was impressed that I got it to come out of the ground fairly easily. Amongst these things, even less exciting, I found roof shingles, broken glass, and metal pieces. Unfortunately,

someone has also dumped mounds of garbage behind my yard as well. It's really disgusting and I think it would take me 100 years to clean up by myself. I am hoping to clean it up a little though. After all this, I dragged piles of dug up grass on a tarp over to the fence and tossed them over. (at least it's organic garbage!) I used the tarp because again my limited tools, I had decided to not buy a wheel barrel. I have a feeling my back is going to pay for it tomorrow.

Anyhow, The plot is cleared and ready to have the raised beds put into place, fence go up, and finally do some planting!! The last picture is modeled with my cat, Javier. He likes to play in the dirt too! More to come!