I dug out my brand new vegetable garden today. Tomorrow, I buy wood and deer fencing, and set it up so I'm not sharing with other animals. This food's for humans. It's a small garden, for tomatoes, peppers, brussels sprouts and for fun, sunflowers. I took a rotting shed and stripped it to the beams, then used old wood and plastic to make a greenhouse. I needed to extend the growing season here, and it has worked well so far. I would have made a larger garden, but the deer fencing is an issue.
I got back from a trip to Scotland and Ireland a few days ago, and experienced jet lag for the first time in my travelling life. It's been an inconvenience before, but this time, I really felt it.
17 days away with the fish unfed, and I only lost one - a tetra that wasn't looking good when I left. They're all happily eating again.
So for the rest of today, I plan to sleep. It's early night now. Tomorrow- water changes and fence supplies.
The guy next door has an old treehouse he built for his now adult kids, and we discovered a huge raccoon living in it. Since my old dog who wouldn't even chase squirrels passed away in the winter, it's incredible how quickly wildlife has moved in. Raccoons, deer at the windows. It's amazing the effect an old, peaceful, easy going dog could have on making them wary. I've spent 3 months looking at every rescue shelter within 400 km, and they seem to be empty of everything but pitbulls. I kept reading about post pandemic dogs, but the shelters around here are largely empty.
