Rainy times are the best grass growing time especially if it is a little cool. This is pretty normal weather for us this time of year - cool around 15 degrees and wet. We will plant some of the garden today. We have cleared away a spot for the carrots (grown for the bunnies which I would rather not enjoy in our backyard but they get fed next door so probably not going to change for quite a while) behind the raspberries which we cleared away yesterday. It might work although we will fence in the lettuces. We are ready to plant the upper part of the garden which is above the raspberries. Next year we will clear away more of the raspberries but it is a heavy task. The front patch of the raspberries are relatively new and hardier. They can stay in the middle of the garden.
Sunflowers are growing in the mini greenhouse and we will plant them out the second week of June likely. So this weekend green onions, two kinds of lettuce, spinach and dill in the main garden. Leaving the half of the garden under the black walnut tree for sunflowers and gladiolus. Then the peppers and some tomato plants for the back of the house which was generally flowers but does have some perennials (early spring) and then the rest of the tomatoes along the side. That just leaves the spot for the parsley plants we are growing and some lettuce plants which I need to buy. The basil will go in on the other side in the shade as it gets sunburned.
Did some weeding yesterday to get the large weeds out so that the perennials have room to thrive. Will leave the dandelions and smaller weeds to help replenish the soil. We have seven bags of black earth that we will put on the vegetable gardens covering up that low cover of weed and helping to replenish the soil. We are doing restorative gardening and will see how that works out.
Lots of work on the Pincombe Newsletter and likely the main article is now complete for this issue. I am splitting it into parts because there is so much material and collecting it will take time. The next issue will have part 2 of the South Molton Pincombe family. I need to check the census to see if there are still Pincombe families there in the 1800s. My own line continued at Bishops Nympton into the 1900s although my 2x great grandfather John Pincombe son of Robert Pincombe of Park, East Week and West Week emigrated to Canada in 1850/51 (they arrived at the Port of New York in January of 1851 having left from Plymouth in November 1850). From there they continued into New York State to Genesee, Upper State New York where his brother Robert lived at that time and then into Canada (Westminster Township now part of London, Ontario) where they continue to live (some of their descendants that is). We did visit Bishops Nympton in 2008 which was an interesting experience. At that time it was 158 years since my 2x great grandfather had left (he was farming and living at Gatcombe in Molland at that time but had been born at Bishops Nympton). This was a farm that had been occupied by the Pincombe family since the 1600s at least when he sold the leases (it appeared to always be a John Pincombe living there and before my John it was his Uncle John (his father Robert's eldest brother). I have now completed publishing the baptisms that I had transcribed for Landkey so will move on to the marriages next. I only purchased the early records as my interest in the area quite evaporates after 1850 but taking on the one-name study I did purchase the entire set of Parish Records for Bishops Nympton. At some point I may purchase the others to bring them up to the present but that is a little far fetched at the moment but one never knows what will happen in the time to come.
The wind is blowing in the trees and it makes me think of God all around us, watching and wondering how his human race are doing. He does not interfere in our lives any longer but I believe he still watches especially when the wind is blowing through the trees. He doesn't control that wind the earth has evolved because of us and we must live with the result of any changes we have placed on the world. But mostly we must learn to live in peace and harmony; that was what Jesus wanted for us.
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