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We always watched ‘The Victory Garden.’

My Grandma Anita had a postage-stamp sized yard in inner-city Milwaukee and she grew a ton of food in it. I learned so much from her; how to butcher a chicken, how to grow food, how to bake bread, now to can, how to make sausage.

We also hit the Municipal Market in the summer months - a HUGE Farmer’s Market in Milwaukee. LOVED that place. :)

And then there was ‘The Fruit Boat’ which was this big boat anchored on the Milwaukee River, and you could come on board and there were crates of all kinds of fruits to buy. :)

“This smell of the country gets me. I don’t wonder the farmer is held under the hypnotic spell of Mother Nature and thinks about all the stuffy city is good for is to trade with and visit occasionally.”

I actually made it to the garden this morning! No bugs, no sweating - windy, overcast, low 50’s. I eventually chucked the fleece jacket & just worked in a flannel shirt and LONG pants - first time I’ve been in long pants since very early Spring.

The tomato beds are empty ... not totally clean, but empty. I did one last picking of Sungolds & got a couple green tomatoes off the Celebrity. All the plants are out of the ground & in a pile to haul away. The fencing, which will be totally redone (galvanized wire replacing plastic mesh, metal zip ties replacing plastic) are stacked in a convenient spot. I still have fencing to take down around the other two raised beds.

After getting the tomatoes out & doing a few other odd things around the garden, I moved to the generator shed where my new 7 cu ft freezer is going. What a mess. I worked a couple of hours & got 4 huge bags of trash in the pickup for the dump. The issue was the freezer was still in the pickup bed as well so that was limiting my trash space.

This evening, I got in touch with my brother to come help me one night this week move some heavy stuff that I couldn’t handle on my own. To my surprise, he came over in 15 minutes. Thirty minutes later, the heavy stuff was out of the way & the freezer was in!! What a relief! I still have to take more trash out of the shed ... actually, lots more trash, but now I can get it in the PU. Some small re-arranging around the generator needs doing too, but I can handle it.

I REALLY want to work on the garden, but if I do some of that in the morning, then tackle the shed for an hour or two the rest of the week, I should be in much better shape by the weekend.

My back & knee were killing me when I came in late afternoon & I felt like I had dust up my sinuses all the way to my brain. It’s all better now after a bit of a rest & I’ve sneezed out most of the dust. I’m looking at some pork recipes over a cup of hot tea ... good times!