Oh, that was a bit rough.

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I thought I would be able to put a couple hours in the garden, maybe two or three sessions of it.  Not a chance.  I got an hour and a skinned ego in though.  It wasn't the heat, it is only 90 anyway.  It was the bending.  Oh, I'll go out and get another session in.  Especially after seeing how beautiful, large, and flowering, some of the plants are!  As I was going down rows, clearing a path to still possible run drip line and simply finding the plants, I was absolutely astonished.  Some of them have many flowers.  Whether they will go on to create actual peppers is a whole other issue.  Still, they are worth putting more skin in the game, and perhaps the drip line to kill off weeds.  Being high summer, I just don't know if there is time.  But between water starvation and a simple hoe, it might still work.

The simple act of bending over, time and again, was just getting to me.  Now, I wasn't going at a leisurely pace, either.  I cleared out at least two rows, enough to allow much more sun around each plant and lay the pipes, and more.  I started out henpecking and just tinkering around four or five tomato plants before I decided to try to be more systematic about it.  If nothing else, as I have suggested, this will get me in some kind of shape leading up to Burning Man.  Oh, I filled my canteen with fresh water, but water didn't seem to help nor was it the issue.  Still, it's nice to have it back in play.  I'll sip from it on my break, every half hour to hour...  Just like I plan on doing there.

Just a few hours of tinkering, until it begins to cool I suppose.  The goal is to get a couple of sessions in, setting up the tent and possibly the shower system, and putting my cot and sleep kit up to make sure that is all functioning as intended.  Bike tire?  Well, it's just... a notion.  Actually, all of it is just an idea I may or may not be able to give form or breath life into.  Time tells all if some already know.  Later.