getting my hands dirty

i blinked and we're halfway through the year. i should be used to this by now, the speeding up of time as i get older, but it surprises me every dang year. i helped my mom out with some gardening in the afternoon. well, some preparing to be able to garden. is that still counted as gardening? my job was to throw bulging bags of soil into the planter box as she cut plus signs across the plastic so i…