Day 35 - spring is in town

I've yet again spent the weekend with my folks. You see, me & my partner have quite difficult weekend arrangements. Our hometowns are like 170 km apart and we chose to live together in the middle. So, if we visit one family, we cannot visit the other. And if we spend a few weekends together in our hometown our families miss us. So we have this constant drive here/drive there hectic life and after 4 years of weekend drives we simply got tired of it and decided to spend more weekends just the two of us, or if we do visit together, there's no overnight stay.

So when we decide to visit families separately (me my family, he his family), our families expect us to at least stay the night and then there goes a whole weekend.

But, these visits are always fruitful. Like, when I visit my parents, I help them in the garden so I can then claim my share of fresh produce in season :) Mind you, it's no small garden. It's like a whole ranch minus animals (dog doesn't count). In fact, this garden can maintain 3 families year-round.

And spring has arrived. Which means the garden needs to get ready for planting. There's plowing, land-fertilizing and other rough work. I spent the weekend raking. The other time I planted potatoes. I only wish the garden was a bit closer to home, so I could go and grab fresh produce whenever I wanted (although I do have other means of getting my produce to my town). Not to mention, after days in the office and our small apartment it is refreshing just to be outside the whole day and cook & eat your lunch in nature.

Plus I get to play with our dog. Like, a lot.

Gosh, I love this creature.