Planting Lettuces

The clouds hide the sun and I get my gardening gloves on early to tidy up the gravel before the paths are laid. It's a never ending job. The back yard needs sorting before we put earth on it to level it up. Could do with rain too. Suzanne, an early Christchurch friend, arrives to help. With a metal rake. We scratch out the front strip along the front path, ready for earth. I collect Kahu and it isn't long before we have a major bust up over planting lettuces. Too much time together, too long moving, too many little jobs. But if we do them now we don't have to do them later. And if there's two, it's half the work. I toil on then drop boxes of dirt off to a carless friend trying to grow veges. She's bought two toilets to plant them in. Hmmm. Judith arrives for dinner just as Kahu is catching the bus back to College Ave to retrieve the phone charger he forgot. A 21st century indispensable item.