Weekend Warriors
Saturday Lest you think that Kirk did all the work on this, allow me to share what we did with Glenn on Saturday, June 17. That shovel and rake in the foreground were in my hands a lot more than they were on the ground, and I have some nice, tough calluses to prove it. Job number one (after bringing the kids home from piano lessons) was to shovel dirt up against all the sides of the raised beds and tamp it down to hold the wooden sides in place for the stone dust. Kirk and Glenn wheelbarrowed nearly endless amounts of stone dust into the path areas, and I raked it smooth and filled in all the gaps. This happened in three of the four quadrants (the ones with the maze-y paths). For reference, these are the areas we were working on. The yellow indicates the part with the stone dust; the brown sort-of-concentric "Cs" are planting areas. The planting beds are 4 feet wide; the stone paths between are 3 feet wide, except for the larger square in the middle. After the...