The Word B

the past few days i have been busy. saturday i worked in the garden all day. although i called it quits at 3pm and went inside to have a couple of beers and watched the wallabies lose to the all blacks, as expected.
yesterday was sunday, and we spent the morning at the beach. it was so nice. we both jumped in the water. it was cold though, then i went for a run up the beach and back for about 8 minutes non stop. i was exhausted, but very pleased with myself for being able to do it. then i went for another swim. it wasn't so bad, since i was all heated up from the run.
over the past few days i have been taking up the grass in the back yard in one corner as i am going to plant a veggie garden. the grass i have taken up i have tried to plant in other areas around the yard where the grass was patchy, so it has taken alot longer than i hoped but i am nearly finished with that chore. we are too strapped for cash to just chuck out the grass and plant nice new turf. it would be so much easier and have an instantly more uniform look to it. but really, after spring kicks in and the heat of summer turns on, the grass will grow so fast, you wouldn't be able to tell. then i will spend most of my time "chasing the green buffalo," otherwise known as mowing the lawn.
i have gone back to doing my student teaching, and am doing that full time monday-friday. it is exhausting, yet today i came home and worked for 2 hours in the back yard, moving more grass and pulling weeds etc. i have so much to catch up on it seems like i can never get ahead in that yard, but i know that one day it will be just as we want it, then i am sure we will move.
we already have a scare crow in the yard. it is left over from last years halloween party. so once the garden up, gretchen- the name of our scare crow, will have an instant job. don't know if she'll scare off the birds though, as a few tend to hang out in the back yard as it is.
tomorrow after work, i am planning on another jog, but i might just get stuck into finishing off the garden and prep it for planting, although i think i am going to need more dirt. dirt, jog, it is a tough decision to make. anyway you look at it, it's work. but damn it is good to be alive. i am just not enjoying the overwhelmed feeling i get on a daily basis. it was good being on holidays. i think i am about over due for another one...