Catching up

This is how you get your post holes for your garden dug - you promise a steak and beer!!

Chris and Kenny digging up Georgia Red Clay.....

I think I'm finally catching up this week. I took some much needed down time today - well, a little bit. Our nephew Chris from Florida has been working in this area so he spent a couple of nights with us and it was so nice. We just had dinner and visited a bit while I watch American Idol - can't beleive I put him though that! It was Movie Theme night and of course I haven't seen any movies since forever so Chris had to tell me which movie they were from! Didn't matter - Adam is still the BEST! And I did know his song "Born to be Wild" - Duh! And I think I saw a little smile on Chris's face as he watched me knitting VERY VERY slowly! He's so used to Miss Fast Fingers Christy that I think he got a kick out of slow Nana. But I did finish another pair of Wrist Warmers with no Mistakes. I think I will invent a new symbol for knitting - wnm...with no mistakes beacuse that's how I am knitting now - if I make a boo boo I frog it! No sense in having bad stuff. We didn't hear him at all this morning at 6:30 - but Matilda woke me up at 9 and in a sleep walk I let her out. She HAS to go check to make sure there are no squirrels in the bird feeder. She's obsessed with this but it's too damn early. I did go back to sleep for a while and had a nice morning time to myself. Kenny went out to the office for a while so I go down stairs and try to dig my post hole for my upside down garden. I did really well, (honest) and dug about 1 1/2 foot hole. Well, I had to sit down and have a cigarette on the swing. Then I cut and nailed my 2 x 4 together at 8 feet. Now these are old 2 x 4 and warped so they are not even at all. And all the time I would get one nail in and Matilda would bring her Blue Elephant in and I would have to put everything down and go throw it in the yard. Needless to say it took a while to get all the boards ready. Then it started to get really cold so I decided to come in and knit a little. THEN I got really sleepy and laid down on the couch and sure enough here comes Chris! He probably thought I laid on the couch and watched soaps all day! Kenny got here shortly and I took the boys down to show them my hole. Chris just grinned that grin and said it's going to be wobbly! The hole has to be 2 feet. So Mr. NO yard man Kenny took the post hole digger and said oh, you've hit rock. I thought that was the end of my garden but Chris poked his finger in said nope it's just hard dirt. Evenually they both got my hole dug so I said fine - I'm going to go cook the "steaks" while you two dig my other hole! Was that good or what! When I brought my posts out Chris did ask me if I had been drinking when I nailed them together? NO they are warped! So, now I have my holes dug and when I'll get Kenny to help me get them up I don't know when - hopefully this weekend. We may have tomatoes by September! Of course, I'll plant my container garden - this is just something I want to try. I did cook the steaks and we had a nice dinner, watched the results show of AI (Adam was safe) and I knitted. Except this time I had to frog two things - I can't talk and knit. I think Kenny just said he loved my knitting!!! So I did get something accomplished today plus had a little rest. Let's see what tomorrow may bring!!