Plotting on..............
Here are some pictures to try and illustrate what I have been up to so far. I'm not sure how many hours labour I have invested in this project so far but it has been many. I do about 1 1/2 hours every lunchtime when Nathanael is sleeping. As you can see from 4th pic it is a long plot and I have moved along about 3/4 of it. From the level from tree trunk to the very right hand side there is at least a 80cm dip so that is why there is a massive mound of earth as, as I move left to right I have to dig deeper to reach the same level.
I went to homebase yesterday and got a wheelbarrow, yeah!!! This means that at some stage I can wheel the 8+ bags of heavy rubble I have to the car and to the dump. I also got an earth sieve which I cracked banging it against the wall. When I read the lable it said it was durable. Ha! I didn't bang it hard, honest governor! I also got an incinerator as I have loads of wood to burn from trimming trees and roots. If you zoom into right hand side of 4th pic you can see it by the fence.
The 3rd pic shows the really difficult roots which riddle the soil. I am painstakingly removing the earth from around them and then levering them out or the best part, sawing them in half, woopee. I love using all the tools I can get my hands on!
Pic number 2 is of some of the massive bricks, pottery and slabs of rock I have excavated!!! Oh and pic number one is the hired help on her tree stump!
I should have done a before picture to show you how much progress I have made but hey ho, that's the way it goes! I will continue with my labouring, which my back has stood up to so far!!!
Updates soon..................................NN XX
p.s please note in pic 4 on the wall, the small radio (five live) and the big Arsenal mug which holds the tea necessary to complete excavation works.
posted by nuttynurse @ 2/27/2008
8 Comments:
Oh wow. That looks like a lot of work!
I will put some laurel pics up soon
"We plow the fileds and scatter the good seed on the land......"
Keep digging mimsy. Your garden looks humungous in the pics. Just think though, you could start a home industry of selling fruit and veg.....whittle wegetables! (Jonathan Ross style)
First the farmer sows his seed
Then he stands and takes his ease
Stamps his feet, Claps his hands
Then turns around to view the land.
Oats and beans and barley grow etc
But he obviously missed out the preparation of the soil. What a good parable the parable of the soil is. Just think what you have to do to dig up, remove and sieve and fetilise the soil before the Gospel seed can begin to grow. Ignorance, self-righteousness, disobedience, self, self and more self to be dug out. Keep those pics for a gospel msg.
ps Wear gardening gloves duck!
Bipen: It is. Yesterday I was out there like an hour and seemed to do so little but I had to dig down half a metre to release bricks which had been taken captive by roots!
Moomin: I do, look at the pic.....I have gloves on!
Well OK Susanna that made me laugh so we will consider it a viable funny ha ha! And it's Whittell to you!
I am sowing worthy seed tonight at Friday meeting!
When you have finished come and do mine please lol..
Good going keep on digging.
I took a break today and worked on front patch instead. I dug up a bush, right on!!!!
Clare: I'd get your carer to do it for you love!!!! LOL
Ermmmm he is fighting the laurel and winning atlast , amazing how much light we now have in home.
A down side is that your quite exposed to pathway and road and son's bedroom window got egged the other night.
Also they are using our wall as a goal and its really thumps inside bedroom , but they do stop when you ask them nicely. I think I may have scared them other night as ball came into garden I noticed and went out and one person was trying our gate and I said in my nicest tone you cannot go into other peoples gardens without asking then I handed ball back and they went away lol.. They really have got used to no-one being around or not being bothered so I startled him.
Now about my carer he mentioned they are bigger than him so didn't say anything!! lol
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