Sunday Lunch

   I had a scant three hours for the lottie this weekend. Major brownie point won for completing the decorating of the bathroom on Saturday and we had been invited to Sunday lunch. I am not sure I could have done any work at the lottie on Saturday as it had been raining during the week and the local farmer's fields a waterlogged again. It rained, on and off, all day Saturday too. However I was up early enough the be at the stables for the trailer at 9am Sunday to do the trailer run. I ran the trailer back to the lottie and straight round to the far side of the boundary hedge. There I off loaded the manure. Having been shoveling muck regularly I am getting fitter, at shoveling at least. The trailer's worth of muck was spread along the boundary in quick time. Then I ran the the landy and trailer round the lottie car park.

   I was on my own at the lottie. The morning was grey and the skys low. I filled the bird feeders and within minutes the lottie was full of birds. Even the Dunnocks were getting in on the actions. The trench near the top of bed1 where I last being working had a couple of inches of water in the bottom of it. So that was too wet to dig. I had a look round to decide what to do with hour and half and had left to me. I decided to tackle the bottom end of bed4. I figure I did not need to dig this bed over deeply as I just needed to remove the weeds. Most of the weeds were grass and the ubiquitous Dock.The soil was quite wet but not sticky. Weeding near the edge of the bed is tricky because once you get a spade full of soil there is no where for it to go except the hole it came from. That makes removing the weeds a bit difficult given they have just been buried. I worked along edge of the bed and once I had a strip of soil turned over it became a much quicker job. Despite promising myself not to dig to deep I drop into my usual rhythm and ending up digging down one spits depth. Once the bigger clumps of Grass and Docks where removed the soils was fairly clear so I was able to make good headway. In and hour I had a managed to turnover about five feet of the bed. If I can do the same next week and will have a bed for my Onions.

   I gave the Asparagus bed a weeding just to remove the few early germinating weeds I had missed when I did the big weeding session in the winter. I also took a looks at the bees. The hive is quiet but the candy is disappearing which is a good sign. The rain had started buy now and it was nearly the end of my allotted time so I packed Degsy and hooked up the trailer and ran it back to the stables. The stable owners were just back from their ride so we had a chat about horse things and fussed the Neddies. Then I just a trundled back home with a little time to spare. A lounge in the bath for half and hour then I was ready for Sunday lunch.