Today I felt mostly overwhelmed and underpowered. In the nursery I discovered that the rats have been into not only the peanut sprouts but also the calliandras and the sesbania grandifloras... It is my own fault for not being more careful about providing habitat for them, I suppose, to an extent, but it is still pretty frustrating.
Of course, I was back to weedwacking to keep "Roo's Paddock" down, and so I spent several hours doing that, feeling worried about whether or not I will be able to repair the tractors steering and pissed off at the bastards who stole the first weedwacker. Ie, if we had had the good weedwacker all winter we would have kept on top of the grass much easier and the edges wouldn't be so overgrown with nahiku. Maybe...
Anyway, this morning I stuck little pieces of bamboo into the ground all around the lower chicken paddockl in an effort to stop them getting out through the smaller holes. Also pruned off the pidgeon peas in that part of the garden, gave the pods to the birds over the fence and through the remainder of the stems around the papayas there.
Planted another 27 pidgeon peas after Roo's tractor.
Fed the goats sesbania sesban cuttings and picked up a bunch of pidgeon pea stems to be mulched.
Thinned out some corn, transplanting some of the thinnings to a new bed.
Fixed a leaking water line...