After the "polar vortex" came thru we then had thunderstorms which came thru yesterday morning. It then cleared off and this morning is absolutely beautiful. So we decided that today would be a good day to work on some of our farm's infrastructure. We now have one raised garden bed completed and just need to fill it up with growing medium.
We were lucky in that the only thing this cost us was the fuel to go get the lumber and some long decking screws that we already had. A good friend had the lumber lying around and said we could have them. We built the bed by cutting two of the long pieces down to four feet wide and then cut one long 4x4 post down to 4 sections of 15 inches long each. See the pictures for reference. We then screwed everything together to make the box.
We then, using the tractor, moved it in to position, in the yard to its final resting place.
With a final push, it is in place.
Later, when it is a little dryer, we will put the growing medium in it.
This second pile is forest compost that we found under one of the piles of debris from where we had some pine trees taken out. It is very rich. We also have access to some composted cow manure mixed with straw. We will mix the three together before filling the bed.
After setting the bed in place, we went up to our pallet stack and did some recycle work. Using a sawsall, Blacksmith cut the nails to reduce the pallets into lumber again. We are working on extending our walkway off our deck so we don't have to walk in the mud so much.
We now have some lumber to not only extend the boardwalk but to have our uprights to start our chicken coop. These are 10 feet long. Yah!
These are 4 feet long.
And thru it all we were supervised by the ever present Tootie.
After we reduced several pallets down to their individual components, we moved everything back down to the house.
We had the section just in front of the steps done but it need to be extended. We added another 10 feet of boardwalk and now we no longer have to walk in the mud to get to the front porch.
After this, Mr. Blacksmith got creative and moved our walkway lights from the ground up on the grab rail. They not only will give more light but now they will be able to get more sunshine to charge their batteries.
So, today was a very productive day. Now to go clean up and fix supper. Hope your day was as good as ours.
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Good Job guys! Glad to see it coming along!.keep up the great work!... Big Wayne...
ReplyDeleteThank you. As you said, it is coming along.
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