Pickin' and Grinnin'

It's not too often that we get sunny June days with highs only in the mid 60's and cool breezes out of the north, so I took advantage of the pleasant weather and a day off from work to chip away at the green carpet of crab grass at the Perkins garden.

As you can see in this first picture, I had already removed the sod from the squash patch and rows of corn, with a little additional progress by the pole beans. The tomatoes and peppers are still growing in the midst of a lawn, but today I decided to tackle the cutting bed (bottom of picture).

It's rather meditative work, getting down on one's hands and knees and focusing on a row of 1" seedlings to pull out the weeds. As I slowly backed down the row, I listened to the birds signing and thought of...well, absolutely nothing. Like I said, meditative.

This second picture shows an hour and a half's work. One row completely weeded, and another half done. I went back later in the evening to do another row and half, so just have another two hours of thinking about absolutely nothing left for later this week.