Falling in

My outdoor work has not involved much in the way of plants, lately.

We have a brick walkway, and last winter I found an area that puddled up and froze. One of my promises to myself this winter was to get rid of the low spot. This is what I did on Saturday. It came out quite well. I don't know why the puddle area developed all of a sudden. All ithe job  involved was lifting out an area of bricks about 4 feet wide by 6 feet long, adding two wheelbarrows of sand, and putting the bricks back. Surprisingly, that took about three hours. And I was quite lame when I got done.

While I was doing that Nancy was making another batch of potato and leek soup, which we ate that night. Both the potatoes and leeks did well, this summer, which I reported in Sunday's column, which was my report on the 2009 garden season.

I still have to do the last mowing of the lawn. That will take time because the lawn is layered in leaves. But if I do get to that mowing, the raking will be easier when all the leaves have finally fallen.

My postings here will probably be a little less frequent, now that the growing season is about over. But I won't put it into hibernation, because I am sure some things will be coming up that I will want to chat about.