Returning to the adventures!

 

Hello again,

It's true, I'm guilty. I invited you to come walk with me and then I melted into the landscape. Really, and on a few of the days almost literally. Last year, around this time I started to get really serious about trying to reclaim some of our space from the twitchgrass. I was working on patches here, and working on reclaiming my neighbour's garden from a couple of years of being mostly fallow.

I had thought that when I was having a break from digging I'd write. To some extent, I did – but I didn't write about what I was doing as projects in the space. Sorry about that. Then I thought, well, I can catch up over the winter. Surely by spring I'll have a whole lot of stuff ready to put up. Nope. Sorry about that, too. I spent a lot of the winter developing both my Patreon page and my elfworksstudios.ca (e-commerce) site.

I'm not going to make any grand promises here, but I will endeavour to get articles up here, with photos, on a regular basis. I did a lot of writing in my head last year while I was knee deep in the soil, but I never wrote anything down. I'm going to try taking a digital recorder out with me sometimes and hope that I can remember some of what gets written in my head that way.

There are lots of projects on the slate, a ton of things underway. I'm back to digging again, but I'm going to try not to be quite so fanatic about it this year. There were a few surprises last year that shouldn't be popping up again. Anyone who knows me via facebook will have seen the large metal plate that got dug out of the ground last year (the end to an oil tank we think) and the culvert we found that it was “protecting” and the french drain we subsequently put in.

If you haven't seen it already, that may be one of the things I'll be putting up here. There will be bits about the size and abundance of the rocks in our ground. Tales of Twitchgrass will be recounted, I can assure you of that.

We are hoping to start the roundhouse project this year. I am also hoping to rebuild the cobb oven. More garden beds are going in, more trees are being planted, more plants being tried, and more being learned about the plants that are succeeding.

All these things are in the works, and while there are many projects and only so much energy to go around, I will be writing more for this blog.

Yesterday morning, around this time, it started to snow and kept at it for some hours. I can only hope that the more tender plants survived that. While a day of snow this time of year (or even later, into June) is not unheard of, it doesn't usually follow a on the heels of a week of weather more suited to July than May. Apple trees that were in full blossom and losing their petals got snowed on, and beds of greens and new plantings got buried for a few hours. We tarped what we could, and by end of day most of it had melted. (I had somewhere to be, so I'm afraid I didn't get any pictures of that.) The next few days are supposed to be more like seasonal for around here, so fingers crossed, things will even out.

Wherever you are and whatever you do, I hope your own adventures are good ones.





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