Back to Work

After all that celebrating, it was time to get back to work. On Thursday, Rick planted a bunch of garlic starts. These are just a small portion of what he has started.

He got a three-row bed in Row 1.

And he got row 4 tilled and raked. We planted Paso peas in this row, but Catherine saw birds gobbling them up, so we'll have to see what happens.

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What We're Eating
I sacrificed this pumpkin. I was gonna make pumpkin bars but I got busy with work. I'll make them today. I also plan to make pumpkin black bean soup again, with lots of curry.

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Yesterday, Rene called up, raring to go on the bar. So we hustled over and got started. Rick and Rene cut tar paper to fit.

They carefully fitted the paper around the windows. We quickly realized we didn't have enough tar paper, but Billy had some, so Rick ran down and borrowed what he had.

Here is the bar all wrapped and screened on the south side. We're leaving those triangular top pieces open for ventilation.

 Then they started putting up the trim boards.

They were bustling about in a manly, power-tooled, building-stuff way, and I was superfluous. So I continued to work on that flower bed. The irises were unbelieveably thick. I was finding old grandpa roots 4 inches down, under 15 other layers. I eventually got enough dug up that I could plant the daphne and replant the day lillies. I didn't want to lose them by not getting them back in soon enough. I laid the bricks just to give myself a line, but the daylillies will actually be the border of the bed.

I also got almost all the naked ladies back in that had been dug up from other areas. This is gonna be one thickly flowered bed! I adjusted the end of the bed to give us a nice smooth curve into the glen area. I even replanted a little clump of grass that had survived there. I was excited, because it was like working with hundreds of dollars worth of plants.

Back at the building, Billy showed up after he finished his project. The first siding pickets are going up in this shot. Yep, that's our old fence!

 And wow! It's starting to look like a real building!

It's going to nestle in here and look weathered and natural. We even plan to face the 2x4 trim with bits of old fence so everything has that nice weathered look.

We had to restring the lights asap. I wanted to put the sign back up, but it was ruled "still in the way" so I have to wait. We're going to mount the brass bar rail along the front.

 I just love how it looks at night.