En el Jardin!!!!!!

So today I had my last test for the units in my math class and now all I have left is the final. It makes me a bit nervous but I think that I should be able to do alright, if I can keep under control and not get so nervous that I forget everything. I went over to Western Gardens and picked up some things that they were going to throw away, I got two 75 gallon fish tanks along with two 55 gallon fish tanks. Now I don't have enough room to put everything. hahahaha. After that I went down to Dorothy Brim's house, the lady that has the land that my dad and I are doing the garden in.
I spent about 3 hours raking and picking up weeds and tree limbs and things so that I could spray down the land before we go ahead and plant it all. I am almost ready to start tilling hopefully we can find a big tractor that has a tiller on it because 5200 square feet is a lot of land to till by hand and shovel. The soil is mostly sand though so it should be a cinch and that means more watering as well, sandy soils aren't the greatest for planting in.
After I was done spraying the land down to kill everything on it my dad showed up and we talked a bit and I told him what I wanted to do with the trees and the land and everything else. I think that I want to plant some trees in a few of the rows and then sell them or a pretty penny. I want to get some Japanese Black and White Pines to grow. A 4 year old Japanese Pine sells for about 150 to 200 dollars, so there is a little motivation.
I love working in the garden it is so relaxing just me out there with all of nature and growing living things. It's like they are talking to me and I am communing with them through feelings and thoughts. They know that I am there to take care of them and help them to grow up big and strong. hahaha.
Tonight was my third try at some homemade ice cream. I'm telling you, I am getting pretty good at this thing. I made some raspberry cheese cake and it was absolutely amazing. It was like a little party in my mouth. Hopefully I can reproduce the effects of this and do it again. Now I just need to remember how I did it all.

Another day another dollar

Well today was quite fun. I went to work and rearranged all of the trees that people have tried, in vain to arrange. Sometimes I wonder how people can function through their lives and not know how to use the alphabet or simple shape recognition. It's quite simple, the trees go in alphabetical order, we have a book that tells us, and then from smallest to biggest. I started organizing the Japanese Maples and someone had left out entire stocks of trees, so irritating.
So I have been working in the backyard to try to get it nice to sit in, and tonight Lauren and I were able to sit down and enjoy the sounds of the birds feeding on my seven feeders. I don't even like birds yet I have become obsessed with them. I have different feeders for different varieties and hopefully I can even get some Orioles. We have two kinds in Utah. The days are getting warmer and so all of the birds are coming around so if you want any birds at your house put out your feeders now to start to attract them.
School is starting to wrap up I only have a few weeks left and then I am done until fall semester. This semester has been kind of difficult only because I was taken for a ride with the good ol' V.A. Now they do take good care of me and I can thank them for quite a bit but where the school gives me a year to make up an incomplete class the V.A. only gives me one semester so it's been a big joke to get through it.
My Bonsai Club at SLCC is starting to make some headway. Next week I plan on getting a booth and setting it out so that i can attract some hands on kind of people.
Not a whole lot going on in my life yet. Lauren wants to build some box planters and have a garden of our own, so I am going to hopefully get that taken care of this week.

Day Off

Today was an interesting one. I only had class from 10 to 12 and then I was off the rest of the day. Yesterday I went golfing with Uncle Buck (Dan) and Jaren, we went to Mulligan's, Jaren doesn't like to golf on REAL courses, but I was horrible. Today after I got out of class I called up Golf Galaxy and got a lesson time. I went in and apparently EVERYTHING I was doing was wrong. Glen Spencer, the teacher, spent the whole time restructuring my entire golf game. After we were finished he talked to me a bit about practice and keeping up on the technique and I asked when I should return and I kid you not he looked at me and said, "This may be the only lesson you need." I was stunned not only to hear him say that but to hear his explanation why. He proceeded to tell me that most people come in and don't listen but I absorbed every little detail he said. Took it to heart and put it to good use. He said that he has almost never seen this dramatic of a change in that little of time. Well I stopped at another golf store to find a club and took a few swings and the teacher/salesman that was watching said the he hasn't seen an amateur with that impressive of a stance that has not been in the tour before. I am quite excited. I will practice and then in a week or two I'll go back and, even if it's for him to tell me that I am good and I don't need anything more, I will be proud to have said that I have cleaned up my game.
Now my goal is to get my 18 hole game down under 95 and then I can join the amateur tour. This year will be practice and then next year I will be on it. ha ha ha.
There hasn't been a whole lot going on lately. I was on my bike the other day and car back fired then I let the throttle go and the bike backfired right after the car and I almost fell over it scared me so bad. Most of the time I can keep control and stay on top of most of my surroundings and not let things get to me like that however, every once in a while I will get caught off guard and then "BAM" I get hit with something that sends me reeling for cover. School is almost over and hopefully I can change my major so that I can attempt to create a title for myself through the skills that I already have. Summer is almost and with that the neighborhood children are becoming less of inside bodies and more of the outside type. The other day I came out of the house to see the next door neighbor kids climbing up on my shed and jumping off onto their trampoline. I flipped out and I'm sure that as soon as I got in the car and drove away they went right back to doing it but that just made me a little nervous about them being stupid and killing themselves and then the parents yell at me because, "I allowed them to do it because the shed is in my yard." Sometimes I wonder how the world functioned without being able to sue everyone. Oh yea now I remember, Doctors could actually practice medicine, McDonald's could have HOT coffee, and people could have other people over for some fun and games rather than having some lawsuits and pains.

Last Day

Well Tonight was my last night working at the good ol' Spaghetti Factory. I am not sad even a little bit to be gone either, it took up way to much time that could be spent in more deserving areas. My last night was pretty good, it was really slow and boring, and everyone would come in and say, "Is tonight REALLY your last night?" I would look at most of the people that asked and just stare at them like they were handicapped. There was a couple people that were sad and one that was upset saying, "Now work is going to suck and it's not going to be fun anymore." I don't care I thought at it was odd that people would get that attached to other people that they work with.
Math is starting to get a little easier now that I am comprehending most of what is going on. I have also found out that there is only ONE Landscape Architecture Design, in all of Utah, and it's at Utah State. There are a few extension programs around but the only thing that they offer is a Horticulture degree. That degree would be extremely helpful and the only difference between the two is the Landscape Design also gets into computer software and business running skills. After running my own little business, when I was but a young lad, I think that I can figure that part out and, with a few books, I'll be able to figure out the software thing as well.
So my dad went over to look at the little bit of land that he has used to do a garden in the past and I would like to use this year. It is covered in weeds and in some severe need of prunage on the trees. I want to get some Asparagus and strawberries. I love Asparagus.