I got back in the traces, or harness, or whatever you call it, today.  I planted some new cilantro seed.  I tried again to hoe the concrete posing as garden soil, and discovered it really is like an impenetrable clay slab  just below the surface.  The hoe just bounces off it.  So I gave in and got out the rototiller, and managed to break it up into fragments and finally a thin layer of dust over the solid clay floor.  No wonder everything has such a hard time thriving and producing.  But I won’t be deterred.

More challenging than that is not being able to eat or drink normally because of my crater.  I didn’t even stay to eat the dinner I prepared for the family.  And I didn’t accompany them to one of my favorite places, Global Foods, but for a different reason–no money for food.  Man I’m pathetic!!  But the weather was perfectly gorgeous for working and walking, so I did accomplish something.