victory garden

with the first of the rain coming next week, we had to get the garden in.  fall is definitely in the air!  the leaves are starting to slightly change colors and drop.  the weather has gotten cooler, except for some random warmer days.   but apparently it's still warm enough out to wear a tank!

we started the day with a trial of a new restaurant that specialized in vegetarian food.  can i say that there's about 1 more week left of no meat eating.
boyfriend:  what do you want for the first meat meal?
me: hm, well love, as much as i can't wait to eat meat again.  i am going to miss it'.
boyfriend: so does that mean you are going to continue on with this?
me: NO WAY
so till next time 14 of january.
we counted 8 range rovers (4 of which were BRAND NEW) on the way to the new eatery and through the meal, in yuppie town.  saw a yuppie mom try to take an ugly old luis vitton bag (i mean even if it were brand new who would buy such an ugly bag) and turn it into a diaper bag for her boy (poor baby boy and baby daddy who had to carry the bag).  then off to some browsing of the boutiques.

while eating brunch i suggested to boyfriend that we stay in and nap the day away.  his response 'love, its such a lovely day.  do you want to stay inside?' me 'i guess not.'  so off to work we went and went and went...

starting to dig random holes.

hour later we have this along with tired of slaving all the dirt off the grass.

just told boyfriend so exhausted i'mma puke.

no energy to throw up so lets get it done planting lonely onion.

can see the light at the end of the tunnel.

done (heirloom lettuces)

and done. (purple broccoli)

this mini compacted garden was a lot of labor because well we didn't go out and buy nice dirt.  instead we bought two bags of soil additive to make things soft and fluffy.  the road-a-till was in the very back of the yard, but being that both boyfriend (didn't realize there wear gears with it and thought MAD MACHINE!) and i (when little remembering watching my dad till the ground it required 2 men to man it when we only had 1) didn't know how to operate it we went with manual labor (thank you my love!).

hopefully in 60 days we will be enjoying fresh veggies.  proud of the garden, just realizing not cut out to be a farmer.  that's really sad news to me.  there goes the dream of having an apple orchard or pumpkin patch with bountiful plum trees and chickens, but i will still enjoy the pumpkin patches and apple hill!