I spent almost all day "farming" today. I had my tent pitched all summer, and took it down last week and found that, as expected, the field grass underneith was all dead and easy to remove. Live grass is soooo difficult! So, I got up this morning and raked the dead grass out of the way, then started to turn the soil, removing rocks which would interfere with the tiller, putting a border of dead wood from the tree I had cut down around the edge, and working compost into the soil. Got a ways to go, because it is backbreaking, but it is started...

Then, I staked the tomatoes because they're not quite ripe and we have frost again tonight, then tented them. Seems to work, that. We should have a couple of hundred tiny tomatoes very soon. I only planted tiny tomatoes. Next year, I branch out.

This is the first day in over a week that I have felt better. I had a bit of a cold, and managed to get some jalipino into my eye last Wednesday, which by Thursday had, with the help of some poisen ivy, made the right side of my face swell so badly that I had to spend last Thursday night in the hospital. I spent Friday relaxing, once I got them to release me from captivity, and Saturday went to Sommerville to spend the weekend with my wonderful daughter. I got to go apple picking and had a wonderful dish of ice cream with her and her nice friend. On Sunday, I went to Providence, picked up my grandson and took him to visit my mother and to Regal Reptiles. Monday, I had lunch with two dear friends, then picked up my younger daughter to go visit with my grandson again. Didn't head home until Tuesday afternoon, after having breakfast on Harvard Square with my daughter.

So, for two days in a row, I have done a lot of cooking, cleaning, and farm work. Tomorrow, I build bookcases and get ready to start painting, both the shop and the new bedroom for my grandaughter. Funny thing, adopting my grandaughter will make her my daughter, then I will have three...and now her mother and aunt will also be her sisters. Wow, that's bound to be confusing...