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Time to get ready for plantin
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Plantin season is a comin, and Tater's gotta get out there and rip out the old tomater cages and basil stems and dig the soil. Gonna put in some raised beds this year, on account of that damnable Bermuda grass, gets its tentacles in everything. Got three beds laid out, two are 4 x 10, and one 4 x 6. Figure that's all the bricklayin Tater'll have time to do before it's hot enough for the tomaters and peppers to go in. Still, gonna have to lay in about 30 tomater plants, maybe 20 peppers, lots of arugula, lettuce, carrots, beets, parsnips, basil, maybe strawberries this year... so them beds gonna fill up fast and the rest'll have to be put in around the perimeter and in the west 20 and between the fruit trees.

Speakin of fruit trees, they all set to buddin early, and Tater's afeared they gonna get frost bit like the last three years. Dagnabbit, didn't get *one* piece of fruit last year for the frost. Except for apples, on account of they get flowerin later than the plums, peaches, pears, cherries, almonds and apricots. Oh, lordy, them peaches. Second year they was in, got over a thousand of em. That's thousand with a t.

Now, as to them new raised beds, gotta dig out the sod and put in the forms, then get the concrete man to come by. Problem is, the concrete man here'll try to short you on volume and additives. Last time Tater paid for fibered concrete, where they fill it full of plastic fibers to keep it from crackin, and he brought plain ol unfibered and tried to claim that you couldn't see em but they was there. Then he said Tater ought to just pour three inches instead of four, and Tater knew he didn't bring what was ordered.

Son of a bitch. Hate that kind of dirty dealin.

But enough of that complainin. Things is warmin up and soon we can set out back and drink wine and eat fresh vegetables and such. But only if we do the prep work, so this ol boy is gonna get out there and cut that sod. Soon as the rain lets up. And if his back don't hurt too bad. And if they's some coffee left. Provided he actually gets out of bed.