I’m really proud now because I’ve never made it to three before. So I said before this blog would be about my life and my kids and food. So as promised, here’s one about gardening! This could actually get really long, so I’m breaking it up into a few sections. Here in Minnesota we just ended something like a hundred days in a row of having a few inches of snow sitting around everywhere. There’s still some ice in the shadows here and there, and yes it did just snow a couple inches yesterday, but I have reason to believe spring is coming, and with that I’m getting a severe case of cabin fever. It’s bad. I would not call myself a hugely active outdoors type, but this is the time of year I get the motivation needed to do some actual work in the back yard, and man does it need it. Our dogs basically have eaten, scratched, mangled or dug up every square inch of our back yard. Last summer I built a wooden fence around the garden to keep them out, with a lattice gate. Finley, our bigger dog, ate it a few weeks ago. The gate is gone now, it’s splintered remains lay all over the yard. It mocks me as I stand there at night looking at it while waiting for the boys to “do their business”. The weekend I gathered what little resolve I could and said to myself, this far, no farther! I slapped some plywood over the gaping hole and set about hatching a plan to not only bring this yard back to life, but make it better, faster, stronger, lighter… okay not lighter.
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