Planting garlic in the frost covered soil, in 4°C temperatures, and the early morning rays of sun shine.

Not going to lie, it was hard on my back, and it made my fingers go numb, but we did finish a new full row, plus plant a second half row to finish off the garlic for the year. Well, at least the hard neck stuff. Soft neck has to go in slightly differently, so I’m told, so we didn’t do any of that — yet.

I took the dog for a quick walk about after we finished with the planting. Which is always fun. I checked on my wood piles to see if any logs had dried up over the last four or five days. I had to turn some rounds to get them to drain, and hopefully dry out a bit better so that I can split them more easily. Wet wood is far too spongy. It absorbs the blows from the axe, and then the wood gets all chewed up, but doesn’t really come apart. So I took a few moments to turn a couple logs, make my life a bit easier.

The dog and I also walked the fields to pull up more stones, rocks and such. I got more than a handful of eight to ten pounders this morning. I have six or seven good piles to removed if I can locate a sturdy bucket, and a side by side with which to transport them all. Might take a number of trips to get all the piles relocated. Better in a culvert than in the fields banging up the farm equipment. I’d love to have a few hours to go through the whole field, but I’m ok walking a few strips on foot, and carrying out armfuls or rocks manually. I’m just trying to be nice. If nobody else wants to do it, I can leave it be, farm equipment be damned. Not my circus, not my monkeys.

I do believe it is Wednesday today. We took four days to go to Niagara Falls for a short family vacation. Did all of the things we wanted too. Had lovely (if cool) weather for it. No noticeable rain while we were out and about. That’s all one can hope for these days. Couldn’t go south to the US, as the weather in the Keys looks like it might dissolve into a category five hurricane. No thank you. I feel bad for the Caribbean, and Jamaica who’ve been hit hard by **Melissa already. Just ugly. (**Name edited from previously mentioned Marie, which was incorrect.)

But now I’m all washed, dried, and have had breakfast. I need to do some household chores, and return some items back to the garage. Happy Wednesday. Go Blue Jays!