9April 2000
We finished with the rows, the planting—peas, green beans, lettuce, scallions, carrots, tomatoes, zucchini. It took us the rest of March and a few days into April . . . and by us I mean me, mostly. Evelyn was working on putting together a design for the second bedroom. Not that our bedroom was finished yet, but I didn't mind. Working on the second bedroom made her happy, and I didn't mind sleeping on the couch or the air mattress. I'd just finished the garden today, starting before the sun had even come up, and by just before sunset I was watering, and that was that—that was our garden for the year.
The only thing we hadn't planted yet was her peace lily—we were going to wait until it got warmer to plant that to make sure it would take. I didn't know what she'd do if her peac
