Garden Preparation

The garden is slowly taking shape. Since we put the oven in the garden, we cannot bring the tractor in to till the soil. So we have been hand digging the garden, not that it is acres and acres but the soil has lots of clay and it can be a hard dig.


We are over half-way finished digging the garden. Next week we will bring in the small rototiller and get the garden ready for planting another crop of peas. There are never enough fresh raw peas, especially since there are all sorts of tiny pea thieves running around the garden.

Woodpecker

I was walking along the edge of Chinatown a couple of weeks ago, and I was trying to figure out where the woodpeckers I could hear calling were located. I heard at least two of them, calling back and forth. Just when I had given up looking for them, there was this very loud hammering sound, and just across the street from me, I saw this woodpecker pecking away at a metal light standard. He was making a lot of noise, enough I suppose to attract a mate and a fan.