It’s been so hot where I live lately that I’ve been having trouble sleeping. I’m struggling to find the energy to do things that I want to do and my moods have been up and down as well. Luckily, it rained last night which seems to have cooled things down a little bit.
I’m glad I didn’t completely give up on my garden. I ended up with a couple of very delicious radishes! They’re probably the most expensive radishes I’ve ever eaten, but it was very satisfying to pull them out of the ground, wash them, and eat them because I grew them myself 🙂 I’m not going to get my hopes up, but maybe I’ll get a few more veggies out of my garden this year.
I’ve had a bit of a rough week, healthwise. I ended up having to stay home from work for 2 days and I had the same issue this weekend, which put a damper on having the house to myself while the Boyfriend is out of town.
I think I’m giving up on gardening. It feels like whenever I have the time to do anything, it’s raining, and then when it’s not raining I have to hurry up to do whatever I can before I have to do other things. It’s becoming more of a chore and isn’t relaxing or enjoyable at all.
The weather warmed up and the sun came out. I got hardware cloth to reinforce my garden fence, along with a few other things I need to plant some bulbs and other flowers. When I went to see how the few remaining vegetables were doing, I discovered that the whole garden bed was full of little dandelions that had just started to grow! I pulled out everything that I saw, but with the way the dandelions have been spreading this year, I’m sure there will be lots more.
I haven’t lost any weight this week, which isn’t surprising after all the snacking I did during yesterday’s readathon.
Something dug up my entire garden! On top of that, I haven’t been able to do anything about fixing it because it’s either been raining or too windy to be outside long enough to get anything done.
I got a few plants into the raised bed and started some more seeds last weekend, and this weekend I’ll be doing some more transplanting. The weather has been so wonky, though, that I’m really not sure if anything is going to grow right.
I finished filling one of my raised garden beds, and I got it fenced in to keep out the critters (hopefully). However, I won’t be putting together the 2nd raised bed like I originally wanted to, at least not this year. I discovered that the ground is very uneven and is also slightly sloped, so I would have to do some landscaping that I just don’t have the time or physical capacity to handle right now.
I earned another $5 towards something on my wishlist!
I finally got half of one of my raised garden beds filled with the soil mixture I’m making, but that was very hard on my back, so I’m delayed (again) until next weekend. Hopefully, the weather will cooperate. I will probably only have one garden bed this year, instead of the two that I had planned.
More rain and high winds kept me from doing much of anything in the yard this weekend, and then the Boyfriend got sick, so my energy has gone toward taking care of him and everything he usually does along with my share of the chores.
