hard labor

ok, so i worked in the garden for 4 solid hours yesterday.......and one has to look closely to see exactly what was done.........that is the nature if yard work......lots of effort for no discernable benefits......well...the total effect is the benefit....but with plants that have yet bloomed....there is none at the moment......i did move a 5 x 5 foot patch of lamb's ear from the area i use for vegetables or for seed cutting flowers....i used some to edge the bed that i cleaned out last weekend....and some to edge the bed that surrounds one of the redbud trees....had i purchased many plants...at say...$4.99 a 4-inch pot.....that would be about $75 worth of free plants...speaking of value...i did move 2 others patches of plants from the 'seed' bed......both grown from seeds that i purchased at monticello 2 years ago...one was an inhteresting daisy..the other was a double columbine......none of the other seeds came to much......but i have enough plants of these 2 varieties to say i have my money's worth.....i made the mistake of mentioning at supper last night just how much i had spent on seeds on the occassion in question...ooops...i won't make the same mistake in this venue.....and so the cleaned-out bed is filling back up with a new and improved mix of perennials......along with the lamb's ear, columbine, and daisies i moved several clumps of another grayish fuzzy-leafed plants that blooms fuschia...the name escapes me.....as do the names of all the new roses i planted 2 summers ago...all grown from cuttings by my brotherinlawwhohastherosarium.....i must come up with a shorter way to say that.....the pen he used to write the names on the little plastic tags was not permanent...and the tags are all blank....speaking of roses....i must buy rose food today....i am overdue at feeding said plants......of course.....i could and should get right on out in the yard and resume my labor on this glorious saturday....but my bones are in too much agony from yesterday's work session........we joked at supper last night that there is so much lamb's ear that maybe i could set up a roadside stand to sell it.....maybe with a sign that says...child accepted at princeton...must sacrifice precious plants to pay tuition.......for the record.....i any of my favorite local blog readers want any lamb's ear...i would gladly part with say.....another 5 x 5 patch of it.......