This year I decided I needed to get back to the land, put down roots so to speak, so we built a small raised garden bed. The intent of the garden was to grow a few fresh vegetables, mainly salad greens, onions, carrots, etc. The bed was not finished until the last week of June, so I did get a late start.  When I went seed shopping I discovered a wonderful new product called a seed tape…wow this was easy, lay it down, water, and cover with dirt. The garden was planted in 20 minutes.

I was so pleased with myself; the only difficulty was that I had nothing to mark the rows with…however, I decided no problem; I have six rows…how hard is it to remember six rows? I also looked at this as one of my ‘Still Alice’ tests…if you have not read ‘Still Alice’…you should. It is the story of a woman that is slipping deeper and deeper into Alzheimer’s…seriously, this book will scare the crap out of you…so in response to this book, I give myself ‘Still Alice’ tests on a regular basis. Well this one I failed miserably which...