Another Step Complete!

I spent nearly the entire day outside today. It was so beautiful! There was a breeze for much of the day and when I stepped out shortly before 9 am, it was nearly 60 degrees already. Since it was too dark last night to snap a picture of how far we got into Eli's garden project, I took one before I started anything else and then a couple more after the work was complete for today.

Here's what it looked like first thing this morning...

After about 6 hours of work that was happily interrupted by snacks, lunch, lessons about earth worms vs. grubs, beetles, butterflies and a few rides in the new wheelbarrow ...

I was able to get the entire garden edged, all the moss and grass removed - the few existing perennials were spared, I crawled around on my hands and knees removing all the larger rocks (notice the nice pile?), and added peet moss - it's very true that God provides - there were three large bales already in the barn! I say "I" because Jim had to work today so the kids played outside in their little pool, yes, it was that nice today and I worked at what needed to be done. It was so much fun turning over the ground under the new hummingbird feeder. There weren't as many out today because of the breeze but they did stop by and check it out. I'm sure in a few days the hummingbirds will really be enjoying the new feeders!

I am exhausted tonight though! (and very sunburned even with sunblock today). After I completed cutting in Eli's bed I tidied up four others in the yard and when Jim got home he mowed. The rain is supposed to be back again tomorrow so I'm very thankful that I was able to take advantage of the last few beautiful days. And, with that, I'm too tired to think of much more and I'm itching to start making my plant list, but I'll share one more photo from late this afternoon...