These lighter
longer days have been great for getting out doors into the garden and to top it
off the weather has been amazing. You
all have heard me talk about Simone our big girl Weimaraner; well we now have a
full throttle 1 year old little girl Weimaraner Lucy too. So how does this lead into some kind of
gardening talefor these amazing early spring days? Well here it is!
. Lucy runs by solar power that starts at the
earliest crack of dawn and she runs on mostly high until 8:30-9 at night. So
still I’m not getting there but stay with me! Until it got
warmer out in the morning I would leave my fuzzy sleepers on and shuffle across
the floor and turn on the morning news and often before I found my channel I
would catch some group of people working out to the newest song and try to
perform what looks like a fast pace game of Twister. Don’t get me wrong I liked Twister and
despite what Mike Skillin says about my age I’m sure I could do some of that
stuff they’re all doing. But Simone, Lucy and I are taking a more productive
approach to a complete workout. Of
course when we first go outside in the morning there is the usual looking for
birds and the explosive chase of one of a dozen waiting gray squirrels. I never come as close to catching them as the
girls do but still I’m proud of the effort I put into the chase, Lucy and leash
still in hand.
Once this is completed we
start on a few garden chores. We have
our warm up completed and our routine at this time of the season begins with
raking. Mind you I have only about 20
minutes in the morning to do any gardening and if I miss it I think all day about when I’m going to make up the time. So my raking is to say the
least quite vigorous. "They" talk
about using all the muscle groups; I have no idea what group they are but the
first night after my first spring work out the whole group is complaining! Shoulders, stomach, arms, waist and legs all
the way down to my slippers they all have an opinion about their first workout of
the season. So I tell the group if they
will drag me out of bed this one more time we’ll do something different and
after a little effort they all agree!
Pruning is up next. Little light
workout for the shoulder and arms maybe a little for the calf and some good
stretching for those higher small branches.
This is all pretty therapeutic after the raking and you know the lawn
doesn’t really look that bad so again we switch it up. This time it’s getting
after some of those early spring weeds before they become comfortable. Great twisting, bending, and balancing with Lucy
leash in one hand and my hand cultivator in the other. A twist of the head this way and then that to
figure out what Simone is chewing on, while all the time keeping Lucy from taking away
whatever Simone is chewing. We are
working on our sharing skills right now.
I would never attempt this while pruning because if I cut myself again my wife
Erlene says she is going to take my pruners away, again. Anyway this is our
"Spring Training Camp", outdoors in the yard working up a sweat keeping in shape
enjoying everything , getting the cobwebs out of my head and never setting a
foot or hand on my Twister game sheet!
Terry Skillin
Skillin's Greenhouses
April 19, 2012
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