Life, Etc.

Well, I got over my backset last week and we've had several great days enjoying the beautiful weather. Thank you Lord!! The kids had friends over Friday and we had a hot dog roast, jumped rope and the girls had a tea party. Over the weekend we cleaned up the garden beds and got rid of the ugly, old well cover - ( we have an old hand dug well that isn't used for anything, I hope to have a hand pump on it one day for watering the garden) Steve put a heavy duty cover on it and I stacked pretty rocks on top of that. It's safe and more attractive now. We all enjoyed digging into our compost pile to top of the gardens. We've been working on a compost pile for a couple of years. We've never done it "right", we just threw in vegtable waste, leaves and manure. Even without us turning it properly, it still did it's thing. Philip, who's job it is to take out the daily compost, Steve and Silas who build the composting frame and Mama, who makes sure no good compost goes in the trash, enjoyed a great feeling of accomplishment when we shoveled out the rich black dirt. We've put down newspaper, leaves and compost on our old beds and a new compost pile started. More on that in just a minute. I just want to add that the children and I watched Food Inc. and it's what prompted us to try gardening again in the spring. I highly recommend Food Inc., it's available at Netflix. Yes, there's some liberal stuff in it but it is really info that everyone needs to know.
Now, back on topic. We gathered the shovels and wheelbarrows and headed to Rojo's(our horse) field to pick up his contribution to our new compost pile. Once there,we broke into groups and got to work. When I saw that we had enough, I hollered for everyone to head to the house and got
protests. Yes, I said protest! Here's what they yelled back: " Just a minute, there's a good patch down here, just let us get this first," and "But, my wheelbarrow isn't full!" and " Can we come back after we empty this load?".
I have no answer for this other than that kids really do enjoy good ole hard work. Maybe it's like discpline, they fight against it but really do want it.