YYYAAAWWWWNNNNN.....

so fucking tired and sore. yah, poor me. we got home last night and immediately started working in the garden. we are building a retaining wall four feet high so we can put two in more raised beds. well sounds easy enough. after moving about two yards of dirt, chainsawing ten inch thick roots out of the way and leveling off a fifteen foot long stretch of area we began the retaining wall process...

dig through four feet of decomposed granite and mix up a 60 pound bags of cement, level the post and pour the concrete. WTF? i barley even know how to use a shovel, more over a post hole digger... why did we start this project? cause we are fucking crazy! so we dug and set three posts and today will put in the wall! level the dirt and make the walkway. we will set the new raised beds in place and tomorrow fill them with dirt and plant the broccoli and pees and beans we have slated for them... later we will fill the paths in with gravel and make steps...

why do we do this you ask? i dunno... it is fun. we transformed this large hill side dirt area into a nice garden... we have three different kinds of tomatoes, cucumbers, spinach, two different kinds of lettuce, three different varieties of peppers, water melons, honey dews, carrots and more....

we started an herb garden as well.... complete with garlic, basil, two different mints, chives, dill, parsley and more...

with the new beds there will be so much shit growing... damn, when i write it all out it sounds like alot... i guess it is.

this is on top of all the flowers and other plants we are fucking growing too! whew...

we drove down to the point and caught the ass end of the sun set and the neighbors were out at their point playing guitar, singing "this will be the day that i die...." nice.

so my fucking arms hurt, my knees hurt, i wont even begin to describe what my back is doing and i have all these muscles aching that i didn't even know i had... my hands hurt!?!?! and of course my head hurts... don't think we weren't sucking down the beer while doing all of this....

so after sunset we clean up and make some dinner... saute some mushrooms and onions, threw in some leeks that the girls brought from their garden at school for mothers day and mix that into the tomato basil red sauce for spaghetti. cook up some killer deer sausage that a friend from work hooked me up with and made a bomb ass salad! special cheese has a great way with salads. she puts in a couple of hard boiled eggs with some sliced green onion, Roma tomatoes, mushrooms and more... a little paprika and some honey mustard dressing... we busted out some home made garlic bread to top it off... i could tell you how i make that but i would be giving away my secret recipe for the garlic butter. (hahahaha too bad for you!)

once we sat down to eat we realized it was about ten thirty... sucked the food down like a vacuum cleaner... i hadn't eaten all day so i went to bed fat... really fat...

anyway, twas a great day and even though it was like a sixteen hour day of work, it felt good... i hope everyone week is going well and in the words of our govenator... "I'll be back!"