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amazingly warm and sunny Saturday
Mar. 20th, 2010 08:33 pmToday was a productive day: up to the bank at 8am, back for breakfast, out back to work in the yard at 9am, back in at 2pm for lunch, back out again, back in for a shower at 5pm, then out for Thai food and icecream. Exhausted.
Almost all the railroad ties are now stacked in two piles, one at one end of the area and one about three quarters of the way toward the other end. Five of them were lodged under large rocks and had to be extracted by creative means. We ripped out large amounts of wild rose vines. Don't worry, there are still plenty more out there, we won't run out. We also ripped out bamboo roots as we found them. We did a lot of raking and cleaning up. There is still a sizable pile of brush to be clipped up into burnable pieces, but the burn pile got larger today.
Now we have to get some soil to fill in places and get fertilizer and other soil preparations. Some of the ground is really bad. On one end we've got coal slag heaps from where they cleaned out the fireboxes on the trains. On the other end we've got the packed gravel that used to be an old rail siding. Not much likes to grow under those conditions, although apparently wild rose, bamboo, and blackberries can all deal with it.
We have 8 garlic sprouts showing in one bed, 4 in another, and about 8 in the third. Only one bed is showing no life so far. I'm really excited about the possibility of our own fresh garlic!
Tomorrow will probably be an indoor day with rain in the forecast. We got a sheet of peg board up in the storage room today, I'll probably work on getting the tools and implements mounted on it tomorrow if it's raining. I've also got door hardware to paint, a door to rehang, and pieces to cut and stain for![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
derien's desk and the morris chair. I never run out of things to do.
I'm definitely not doing the Trek Across Maine this year. Not because I don't think I can, that wouldn't stop me. But it's the same weekend we already have reservations at Baxter State Park and we're not throwing those away. So next year, that will be something to consider when we decide whether to return to Baxter again for solstice.
Almost all the railroad ties are now stacked in two piles, one at one end of the area and one about three quarters of the way toward the other end. Five of them were lodged under large rocks and had to be extracted by creative means. We ripped out large amounts of wild rose vines. Don't worry, there are still plenty more out there, we won't run out. We also ripped out bamboo roots as we found them. We did a lot of raking and cleaning up. There is still a sizable pile of brush to be clipped up into burnable pieces, but the burn pile got larger today.
Now we have to get some soil to fill in places and get fertilizer and other soil preparations. Some of the ground is really bad. On one end we've got coal slag heaps from where they cleaned out the fireboxes on the trains. On the other end we've got the packed gravel that used to be an old rail siding. Not much likes to grow under those conditions, although apparently wild rose, bamboo, and blackberries can all deal with it.
We have 8 garlic sprouts showing in one bed, 4 in another, and about 8 in the third. Only one bed is showing no life so far. I'm really excited about the possibility of our own fresh garlic!
Tomorrow will probably be an indoor day with rain in the forecast. We got a sheet of peg board up in the storage room today, I'll probably work on getting the tools and implements mounted on it tomorrow if it's raining. I've also got door hardware to paint, a door to rehang, and pieces to cut and stain for
derien's desk and the morris chair. I never run out of things to do.I'm definitely not doing the Trek Across Maine this year. Not because I don't think I can, that wouldn't stop me. But it's the same weekend we already have reservations at Baxter State Park and we're not throwing those away. So next year, that will be something to consider when we decide whether to return to Baxter again for solstice.
