What do you mean it’s time to start gardening again? I want to keep skiing! Waaaaa!!!!
OK, time to enlarge the garden. We hate digging and it kills all those happy earthworms, so instead, we just put down a little horse manure, then some cardboard, then a mix of goat manure and forest duff, then some straw mulch. Instant garden, we hope. In the background, you can see a portion of the field that we had a “custom farmer” come out with his tractor to till up and seed with a dryland pasture and drought-tolerant alfalfa mix. Hopefully something will grow out there now besides mustards, jointed goat grass, cheat grass and bindweed.
The happy homemaker and her “new” washing machine, a Maytag 1927 special, given to us by our good friends and neighbors, Zoe and Colin. The thing had been half buried in dirt in an open shed for a few years, but all it took was reassembly, a little lubricant and it started right up! Works pretty good (even better than a cooler and toilet plunger for removing those stubborn stains!)
And then the big day arrived, April 17, time to turn the irrigation water into mile-long Robbins Ditch and shepherd it all the way down, clearing out debris dams as it goes so it doesn’t cut the ditch (like happened to us last year). It’s great to see the water flowing again, promising all the great things that water brings us in the dry, high desert land.
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