In which I take some "mental health days" and tank up on Vitamin D
I surprised myself a couple weeks ago by realizing that I haven't taken any days off from work without "cause" since I started the new job in 2022. When I said something about that to my boss, she immediately dialed up her computer and said, "well, let's fix that!" And we did. The Best Garden Halper Turns out that mental health days are important even in a really delightful job. And for the first time this season, we got actual warm sunshine. It was kind of miraculous. On Friday I planted stuff, starting in the berry garden. Strawberries! Last year the strawberry fruits and plants got mowed down by slugs and snails. We've never had such an extreme year for slugs, and nothing was stopping them. A few plants survived, but I decided it was time to throw a few new obstacles into the berry garden. In addition to lifting the strawberry plants up into galvanized planters, I mulched everything with sequoia branches. That should slow them down! Next up: b