Backyard Archeology

I hope you all had a wonderful mother's day and remembered to talk to your mommies. We did not really "celebrate" mommy day because nobody will clean and I won't let anyone use the stove. I went out and weed-whacked and eventually started planting. I planted radishes and little onion starts.

My husband was tilling the garden to get it ready for the massive amounts of plants we are getting ready to install in it. (We found volunteer lettuce and 3 volunteer cucumbers.)

We decided wince we are getting closer to actually owning this property we would start making plans on how to change the property. While we were renting we were under contract to keep the property AS IS and keep taking care of it as if she still were taking care of it (although I like to think I've been doing a BETTER job at most things). She planted literally every single plant on this property. In most cases she did a fabulous job of planting trees and shurbs but The Mr and I don't think we will keep a few of her choices. Some things we can't figure out why on earth she planted them in the first place! Most of those trees that are right up against the house are going to have to go.

There is a huge pile of what I assumed was a compost heap over by the alley. I didn't know how to upkeep a compost heap so I let the grass take it over. It is a nightmare to mow. The Mr decided he was sick of the ugly lump marring his yard and we wanted to get rid of it to expand our strawberry patch. He started digging it up and moving it. You'll never believe what we found!

We couldn't figure out what it was! Just that it was cement. The Mr thought maybe it was a cistern lid - there's a lot of those around town. I'm not sure what a cistern is...I believe it has something to do with getting water out of a well or something.

Anyway, after we cleared the whole thing off this is what it looked like.


Afterward, the Mr thought maybe it was actually a cement slab used to cover up what used to be an outhouse. LOL that would be our luck.

Still, while we were digging it up our neighbors came over and inquired about our garden. We have the honor of having the biggest garden in town. It's nowhere near the PRETTIEST by any means heh heh. But because we weren't sure if we were staying or going we put off starting the garden and it's probably a good thing, too, because last night (IN MAY) we had a frost advisory!

Here's the garden: I marked where I planted seeds with soem old fishing line so I will remember where the plants are supposed to come up and hopefully I'll be able to keep up with the weeds easier . That's my thoughts anyway.

Spring is BY FAR my most favorite season of all!!