Front Garden - Now with More Rain Gauge

I will, in fact, blame it on the rain.

Today was a busy day in the garden. We laid down landscape timber on the north side of the front yard, which involved leveling the yard edges and hauling dirt to the back bed. Our next project is working on the front half of the shed, which I am calling the apothecary. It already holds a small chest freezer, and we’ll also store canned goods there. I’m enjoying growing herbs. We already use fresh herbs when cooking, and my plan is to harvest, dry, and blend herbs as well. This space will eventually have a work table and equipment for doing just that. It’ll likely serve as a place for plant starts for the vegetable (and hopefully future cutting flower) garden. But I digress. The point is that we also picked up paint and flooring for that space. I’ll likely begin the deep clean tomorrow and start painting later this week.

So it was a busy day. The highlight, though, is probably the new rain gauge. I’ve never thought, read, and talked so much about rain. When we went to my parents’ house yesterday, we checked their rain gauge. Today, we got our own. As James said, we need one because apparently this is something we pay attention to now.