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Tomatos and peppers planted in the ground floor garden. We still have room to put the squash, and cukes , but that will be a bit later, since I haven’t started the seeds yet. I took some of that potting soil we like and ran about 3 qts through a 1/4” screen sifter to remove any bark or sticks from it to use as a seed starting mix. I hope to get those started later today.

The plants in the raised container garden are growing fast. I like having it at a comfortable height. If this is successful, I could get interested in expanding next year.

My wife planted 8 packs of zennia seeds in the flower garden way out back. This is where the Texas wildflowers will be, and the blackberries.

While out along the roadside in front of the house looking around at wildflowers, I found some white ones.... blackberry flowers, right across the street!

I have actually been in the shop doing a little bit today. Trying to get some things done before it rains. Will probably collapse from exhaustion soon, and be worthless the rest of the weekend. Oh well, Its better than getting 0 done all weekend.

“Oh well, Its better than getting 0 done all weekend.”

Anything you get done is something you didn't have before.

I have the big bags of potting soil mix on the deck under the roof so I can fill pots even if it rains and I have so many to do, I must do some today. That is where I am, nothing gets transplanted until I have those pots filled. It requires bending to get soil out of that big bag since it is so heavy, it has to stay on the floor, can't lift it. So, I fill pots until pain gets me, then go in and rest the lower back.

The Sears work table came yesterday and I ordered it just two days before. It is terribly heavy when put together (will hold 500 lbs of weight), so I may leave it for the engineer to put together if he gets to come to a school in April sometime. If not, I'll tackle putting it together where it is going to stay. I couldn't lift the box the parts were in. I took them all out of box to be able to move it piece by piece to another place in the room.

A happening: When the engineer and I were working outside and took a break since two chairs were now available to sit in under the roof, he began to whistle “bird talk” and the bird talked back to him. There is no difference in the sound of the bird and the whistle that came out of his mouth. He said it was a mocking bird he was talking to. The bird would make a sound and the engineer made the very same sound, so the bird would make another sound, and the same sound came from the engineer. You would definitely think it was a bird if you heard his whistle which he would change every time he whistled.

He learned “bird talk” when a teen ager and would talk to the different birds that came around their place. He also talked to owls. One time, an owl flew to him and swept over his head. That owl thought he was one.