Mowing, Tilling, & Sowing

Today, I mowed the yard for the first time ever. Not the first time ever that I've ever mowed, but the first time ever here that I've mowed. As I was getting the lawnmower over to the east side of the house, look what I saw trying to hide out in the grass.Oh, it's so close that you can see the light brown of it's eyes. It didn't move until after I shut off the camera and the lens closed. I wonder if it knew that I had been waiting to take a picture of it. I wonder if it reads this blog...

It's amazing what you find when you are the one who mows the yard. This is the same as in our Camping post. That's funny that I've never noticed it before. It's behind the garage.And this Iris was down by the street right beside an electrical thing.There's a lot of Irises in the east side bed that I've never noticed. It's just always been a space slated for renovation and nobody ever bothered to pay attention to it. See the weeds and rocks too?Here's one hamming it up for the camera from the street corner bed.But most importantly, we borrowed a tiller to do our garden. Matt is doing all that though.It works great. We got the corn bed tilled and sowed. I put the sweet corn in 4 rows, 6-10 inches apart. Then, I made hills and planted 4 hills of pumpkin, and 4 hills of butternut squash. I also put in 6 nasturtiums. When the corn has grown a foot or two, I'll sow beans around them and dill too. Here's that bed after the first round.You can see the next row there? That's watermelon. I planted four seedlings there 2 days ago, but the bottom leaves are yellowing on each one. I might dig them up tomorrow and have him till it up real good. More pictures of nicely tilled and sowed rows tomorrow, if it doesn't rain.

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