It’s 6:11 in the morning and I am wide awake. How can that be possible? Well when you go to bed every night at 9:30 waking up at 6:00 means you’ve had a good eight and a half hours of sleep!
The kids are just waking up and have started peeking around the corner to see what I’m doing in my room. Last night was sleep over night for the Hope House kids. Mommy Lidie and the 7 girls in her bedroom were the big winners this week.
The kids have been off school for the past two weeks so we’ve been keeping busy. Our big project for their vacation has been the vegetable garden. The kids have been working so hard on it – raking and breaking up the ground, collecting and spreading horse manure, digging a trench around the garden for rain water and then yesterday shoveling and spreading the top soil. Collecting the horse manure was a traumatizing experience for some of them. Why we would ever need to put poop in a garden was beyond them! I explained that the poop is like big vitamins for the soil and will help our vegetables grow bigger and faster.
Next we will be painting old pallets which will then be nailed together as a fence to keep the goats and chickens out! Then the final and most exciting step which of course is planting the seeds! My goal is to have the fence done by the end of next week and to plant on Saturday.
Gardens have become the talk of the town around here. The kids’ flower gardens have turned out to be a huge hit. They have really embraced the project and take great pride in their gardens. I love walking in the yard early morning to see the kids all working away watering their flowers before school. Whenever new flowers open the kids make sure to bring me over and show me each one.
I’ve also been working away at a flower garden in the yard in front of my apartment. It’s been a big and painful project. Painful as in, my whole body hurts! The ground up here is like cement so we had to use a pick axe to break it up. Then we brought up big boulders to make the border of the garden (they were HEAVY!!), and finally yesterday we shoveled in an entire dump truck of top soil. I’ve had lots of help from my friend Patris, and the three oldest boys from the Hope House: Jean Ronald, Rony and Berthony. The boys are more than happy to help for the small payment of a coke and a peanut butter sandwich. All that’s left now is planting! I can’t wait to go plant shopping!!
I will be sure to send an email next week with pictures of all three gardens!
For now I’ll be busy searching for some RubA535, Bengay or something….it hurts everywhere.
Peace, love and FLOWERS!
Rachel
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