The 2013 To-Do List

As Memorial Day weekend approaches, the summer is nearly upon us.  This means, cool summer evenings, bright sunny days, thunderstorms and fireflies.

Yay, fireflies.  So much nicer than their counterpart, the June bug, giant brown beetle of magnetic caught-in-hair properties.

Bleah.  June bugs.

With the summer, comes the To-Do List.  I know I'm not alone in making one, most people love a list.  I particularly like looking back and seeing what I accomplished.  Usually, I find I've done more than I thought.

This summer is particularly challenging, as I am having ankle repair surgery in mid-July.  This will leave me on crutches, in a cast, for six long weeks.  No walking, no gardening, no driving.  Ack.  The forced sedentariness is already making me twitchy!

So, I am attempting to make a slightly less ambitious to-do list for this particular summer.  Here it is, in all its glory:

Summer 2013 To-Do List

1. Till up all gardens--front and back
2. Plant perennial vegetables in back garden by fence (Good King Henry, horseradish, Jerusalem Artichoke, Walking Onions)
3. Finish planting out garden starts and seeds
4.  Mulch everything with rabbit poo and compost
5. Get the hose connection pipe fixed, again.  Change to PVC?
6.  Plant Virginia creeper along wall of new Bunny Barn--how to train up?
7. Trim the rosebushes in front.
8.  Dig out and replant flower beds in front.
9.  Schedule work on root cellar project--needs to be done before October!
10.  Move chickens out to fields in tractors.
11.  Figure out care coordination for chickens in the tractors.
12.  Hire lawnboy again for the summer--same one?  Different guy?
13.  If no lawnboy, look into hiring a sheep or two every week.
14.  Decide which rabbit to keep, and organize rest for sale at swap in June.
15.  Schedule chicken harvest date in August.
16.  Plant community garden plot.
17.  Go through spare plant starts & organize for Plant Swap in June.
18.  Water in the hoop house?
19.  Plant in hoop house.
20.  Rain barrels:  this year or next?
21.  Pigeons:  this year or next? 
22.  Figure out sprayer and mix up Pyola concentrate.
23.  Mole problem:  how to control?  Dang critters digging up everything!
24.  Clean out Little Coop & prep for new chickens.
25.  Buy new roosting bars for Little Coop & hang them.
26.  Need four more wren houses for top of back fence.  Local maker?

There's likely more to do, but this looks good for now.  With any luck, half of it will get done this weekend!