[RKDinOKC]

Ahh, reminds me of my youth.

Dad got me out of bed early on a cold Saturday morning/..Borrowed a pickup, then I got the thrill of cleaning a horse barn, load up the pickup, then unload it spreading it out over our 15,000 sqft garden. Then an old man showed up with a tractor and plowed and disced up the garden. At least I didn't have to do that with our comparatively puny garden tractor. But did get to spend the next week going over the whole area with the roto-tiller.

Had a similar Saturday happen only it was a sheep barn. Neither what i would call compost as much as 5hit. Not yet spring so was cold work. Which I guess is better than if it was hot and sweaty shoveling 5hit.

We also did the thing where the garden was basically divided up into 7 sections. Each year one of the sections was left unplanted. The unplanted section was a different section each year. I got to till in all the garden, fruit tree, and kitchen scraps. Basicalliy making that whole section a big compost pile I got to run the tiller thru.

Oh one year I did get kind of a break. Instead of 5hit, it got to till in gunny sack after gunny sack of cotton seed hulls.

For all my labor I got to plant and grow several 100 ft long rows of okra that I harvested and sold a bushel of every other day all summer long.