Day 5...Yard Clean-up

Happy Easter everyone!!  Before I get to the clean-up efforts, I have to share that the Easter Bunny made an appearance, much to the delight of one almost 16 year old kid.  The eggs were hidden on the porch and patio area and she went and found them all.  Not sure who had more fun...Fish looking for the eggs, or me (I mean the Easter Bunny) hiding them.

Never too old for an Easter egg hunt!

So, Day 5 went splendidly.  Husband and I decided to "scalp" the dirt in the garden.  What does that mean?  It means to basically scrape out every weed using a shovel.  Sounds unpleasant, doesn't it?  Confirmed, it is.  We decided to do a third of the garden, which was quite exhausting.  During a much needed water break on my part, we discussed what direction the rows would go and Husband had a great idea...use 4x4 lumber to outline a central walkway and have the rows extend out from the walkway going east to west. Certainly would make getting to the rows easier than last year  Off to the local lumber store.  Success at the lumber store...off to the hardware store.  Bought plant food, weed fabric stakes, and looked at new weed eaters, since our old one had died.  They had some nice ones on sale and we discussed purchasing one.  As is our usual style, we got home, and then decided we should back and get the weed eater.  Husband and Fish went back and got one.

After having a wonderful Easter dinner with the in-laws, I went with Fish to retrieve her Chemistry book from Husband's classroom.  Homework is due Tuesday (why oh why do these teachers assign homework over VACATION??!!).  When we got back, Husband showed me what he had weed-eaten...omg...I was so surprised...in a good way, of course.  He had used that thing to do in a few minutes, what we had been doing manually with a shovel this morning for over an hour.  The garden looks beautiful!  Ready to go, in fact!  This man is brilliant!

Now to rototill, make raised rows, cover in weed fabric, lay the pathway 4x4s, and get ready to plant!!