Fall Gardening

(Edited to Add: This post was written on Nov 15th 2008 and I forgot to publish it)

Last sunday, I took break from cooking and we ordered food from the restaurant . I had so much energy left after the usual routine chores and decided to spend some time in our garden. After lunch ,I headed out to the garden and CB was in charge of NR .

It took me almost an hour to  weed and prepare the flower bed in the front yard to plant bulbs.  It took another 3- 3.5 hrs to plant 150 bulbs of  Crocus Remembrance (I love these deep purple flowers), Crocus Pickwick , Tulipa Casa Grande  and Tulipa Bastogne which meant digging 150 holes each 4 inch in depth .  I also planted Hyrbrid Hosta and colacasia esculenta in the west side of the garden. My garden soil is clay in nature few inches below ground level but thanks to bulb planter, I didn't feel the stress on my wrist. The forecast for the upcoming week had shower almost every single day  so I decided to rake the bed of leaves from the lawn and front yard. By the time I finished everything , it was dark and almost 6.30pm. I was only soul on our street working on the yard in the cold winter night. My warm clothes and the hard manual labour kept my body warm.

Hope my hard work pays ; ).  I couldn't wait to see the full bloom during next spring.

I took a warm bath and my whole body ached. My recovery after the 5 months of bed rest during pregnancy and delivery is really slow and I still suffer from bad back aches if I walk a little bit or do streneous work at home. This day was no better it was worse. I walked like a hunch back woman till CB applied some special oil on my back and gave a good massage. Thanks CB for being my personal masseur : ). CB, I Love you for taking care of me like a mother, father, good friend and husband.