Ends in one of several ways. You’re either really rested and ready to get up and go (unlikely!) Or you feel groggy and then get the best six minutes of sleep you’ve ever had in your life (yeah baby!) Or it’s some kind of emergency and you get up in a panic, feel both awake and exhausted and then crumple into a heap once the shock of being awoken early has worn off.
We are heading off to harvest garlic under a stark and uncaring sun, in the sizzling morning heat. With any luck the rain we had recently will mean we don’t have to fight every single garlic clove coming up out of the ground. Given how sweaty and grumpy the first crew was about it yesterday evening, I think it’s going to be a bit of a slog to get through. Just a thought anyway. I give my kids about 30-45 seconds of work before they desire a swim, or just up and leave the garden we’ll be working in. This is when a big portable 10x10ft tent would come in handy. You could work under it out of the sun. The heat will still suck, but the full force of the baking sun would not be scorching my back the whole time. Things you realize far too late in the year!
So, the other day I milled up a couple of old reclaimed boards, and now I need to decide what to build with it all. It’s not much, so a book case or cabinet are out. I have enough for a box, or open vessel of some sort. Unless I tackle more of the reclaimed wood pile. I need to leave some in a rustic state to make a sign for my wife’s side of the family. Something that will go to their cottage at some point. Our living room desperately needs storage space. Like a big wall unit of asymmetrical shape, to fit the odd space, but gives us shelves, and drawers in which to place… stuff. Kids stuff mainly. Not that the 3ft x 2ft toy box I built helped all that much. You have to put your stuff BACK into the toy box for it to be a long term solution.
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