Too much
Yesterday, I built and installed a new front gate.  I wrapped that up by mid-afternoon, assuming you can call it that with the workshop and my sewing room chaotic.  The new gate was a fair amount of work and I should have called it 'good enough' for the day.  I did call it quits for a while but there was still a mess where the E-Z Flush man had dug down to the septic tank.  He put the dirt back but a section of the front walk was still disasembled and there was a pile of sod next to the filled-in hole.  I meant to replace the sod and water it in, but I didn't and it died. 

I knelt on a foam pad, set an upside down clump of sod on the dirt in front of me and whacked at it with the sharp point of my Japanese hand cultivation.  When all the dirt and gravel was whacked out of the clump, I tossed the wad of grass roots to one side and got another clump.  The pile of sod didn't look that big but it took a fair while to go through them all.  The dirt was half gravel.  I guess grass would have grown on it because grass had been growing on it.  It didn't look like something that would make a seed bed though.  I tried just picking out the bigger stones.  Half a bucket into that and I realized it was too slow.  I brought the garden cart in the yard and a screener Blake made years ago out of a big wood picture frame.  He stapled hardware cloth to it.  I laid that on top of the cart and began screening the dirt.  That worked really well and I ended up taking half a dozen or more buckets of gravel out to the driveway.  I dumped the rockfree dirt back on the bare spot and raked it smooth.  By the time I finished putting the walk back together, it was past supper time.  I quit for the second time.

After a break for supper, I got sucked back into the project.  I thought I'd seen grass seed in the garage.  I looked and discovered it was Weed and Feed instead of grass seed.  Not what I needed.  I had a fair amount of white clover seed left over from a time I was going to grow a cover crop.  I sprinkled that over the nice dirt.  Quite a lot of seed since it was old.  Covered that with a layer of Lawn Starter Soil from Walmart and watered it all down.  The last step was protecting it from Meggie and Milo.  I took the garden cart around back of the barn and discovered a rabbit cage, a live trap and a wire box.  Those three things on top of the new seed bed will keep out the dogs while letting in sunshine.  It was getting too dark to see by the time I finished.

This morning I thought I would finish thinning the kitchen garden before concentrating on housework.  I made it through the leeks, scallions, celery and parsnips before I gave up.  I was whacked.  Nothing got done the rest of today.