… and I’ve seen ‘em!

My brother and his girlfriend knocked on our door Friday morning at 8:30 am. The day before he said he’d call me. I told him sure – I’m up at 7am, np! Well Friday AM, I had turned off the alarm and crawled back into bed when I realized I didn’t have to go to Mom’s! So, no one was awake when he showed up. lol.

Digressing for a second:

Mom is done with radiation!!!! WOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooHooooooooooooooo. Albeit very badly burned and taking pain killers for it. See – everyone says “Oh, it won’t be anything you can’t handle – just a really bad sunburn” Liars! Imagine a horrible road burn – like motorcyclists get or accident victims! THAT’s what it looks and feels like! Anyway – She is recovering and really – really happy that it’s over!

So – Now Kelly shows up the door with a tiller in hand and asks me where the garden is. lol. After tilling my old garden (whis is really small – about 8 x 10 ft.) in 20 minutes, I asked him if he’d till me a new garden spot at the back of the yard. I get that leprechaun look – the twinkle with the “I don’t know if I should have showed up today” Look.

God Bless Him!!! He tilled me a new 16 x 32 ft garden – including tilling in all my compost from the heap collecting over the winter and even made me a 3 x 32 ft section parallel to it for berry bushes! And all just before the rains came!

I’ve wanted this garden for over 5 years, but at 45 and out of shape – double digging it wasn’t going to happen any time soon!

Kelly and Lisa were there for 4 hours, tilling and removing rocks and putting them by my little wooden bridge. He said he would come back next week, after I’ve had a chance to get rid of the grass clumps and put some manure and food on it, and he’ll till it to prepare it so I can plant it this year!!!

Hopefully the kids will leave my rocks alone. They will get the smaller garden now so we can plan our gardens together. When we get our plans done up – I’ll scan and post them.

I am so excited – and sooooo grateful to him! We sent him home with 5 jars of jams and a full belly of breakfast – but I can never begin to repay him for all of his kindness and hard work! I LOVE MY FAMILY! Isn’t Kelly awesome?