Garden Project Day 10

Today I arrived home from work to see the boys busily working on that brick wall. They've gotten quite a lot done! (By the way, this really is Day 10 - I couldn't document day 9 because the boys had covered up their work due to the threat of rain, so I didn't get to see anything). They didn't notice me documenting their hard work in progress:



It's so exciting to see it all starting to come together. Look at the difference in soil quality, too - I can't really get over the stark contrast. Soon to come for this little garden: irrigation, arbours, barrels, trellises, dividers, pots, shelves, and quite possibly solar LED pathway lights. Oh, and plants. We can start planting in a couple more weeks. I'm looking forward to getting some crops in!

Also, a little side note: those drywall mud buckets are so handy. If you ever do a drywall project, keep the buckets. They make decent stepping stools, they are good concrete molds, they are good for mixing mortar in, and they are pretty decent storage containers for tools and supplies as well.

A quick note on counting

I must not be eating enough junk food, because my chocolate bar took me by surprise today. How do they get away with calling it a '3 Musketeers' when there are only two musketeers in there?

Interesting note: it says on the package, "35% less fat than the average leading chocolate brands." Well, yeah. Put Aramis back in there and let's see where we're at.

Garden Project Day 8

Sadly, I had to return to work today, so Day 8 featured only the boys working on this, but they got a lot done:




Now that the one side is complete, they have started filling it up with soil, so you can really see it coming together. Only a few more weeks until planting time!

Garden Project Day 7

Day 7 was a day of brick-laying. Progress:

Garden Project Day 6

I had to take pictures this morning of Day 6's progress, since the boys were working into the night on this one. Day 6 was all about preparing the area for the brick work, and some actual brick laying too. Before that, though, we had to prepare the beds for the bricks, by digging a small trench and then filling up the trench to the right height with sand. We also had to prepare the irrigation system enough so that we could lay bricks over top of it:



The boys laid out all those bricks in the dark in a crazy wind storm:



When we were pouring the concrete, we had extra concrete that we put to use by making stepping stones. We poured the leftover concrete into some old drywall mud pails we had, and on Day 6 they were set, so we removed them from the buckets:



Onward to Day 7...

Garden Project Day 5

Secksy.

Garden Project Day 4

Well, here's another day come and gone - Day 4. We got another load of dirt bright and early in the morning, and I had to move the whole pile out of the way - and there was already a pile of dirt in the most convenient spot to relocate it, so I really had my work cut out for me. Here's our progress for the day:



Here's a closer-up shot of all that dirt. My arms hurt every time I look at this picture. Oh well, at least I'm totally beefy now (hahahaha). My only reprieve from the dirt work today was the torture session... err, dentist appointment, I had (which I totally forgot about until they phoned me, wondering where I was). By the way, that's 6 cubic yards of dirt there - 3 from yesterday and 3 more from today. We may yet get more, too...



Here's a close-up of the windy path, with the forms all ready to go.



I'd write more, but my arms have had enough for one day. The pictures are each worth 1000 words though, right? So I hope you enjoyed my 3000+ word post!