- Someday, I will move somewhere where there is nothing but soft loamy soil down a few feet. It seems everywhere I’ve ever had to dig a hole I run into clay, and it’s getting quite tiresome to have to spend more time getting the dirt off the shovel than it did getting it on.
- Digging out a low hill side to set garden beds is a wonderful workout. The five pounds of muddy clay on each of my shoes alone made for a great leg regimin.
- The new garden boxes are constructed, placed, set, and staked into the ground. Now to fill them with dirt.
- BooBoo quote of the day: “Daddy, you’re a mess.” At the time, you couldn’t tell that my pants were green, and my white tee shirt looked like it had been through a cement mixer at a terra cotta plant. The boy seems to have a gift for understatement.
- You know you’ve done a good days work when the shower water running off of you is orange for the first three or four minutes.
- This year we really tried to plan our outside work in that sweet spot between freezing cold and boiling hot. However, the weather isn’t cooperating. It was 80+ degrees out with humidity today. In March. I’m beginning to think I’m a weather jinx.
- It’s amazing how good a hot meal, a Guinness, and some aspirin can make you feel.
Thoughts On The Day
Posted by daddybear71 on March 18, 2012
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Julie
/ March 18, 2012Do you guys use gysum to break up the clay? We tried it where we are but as we're on granite and/or bauxite it didn't do that much, but it is supposed to work great on breaking up clay!
Well done on the gardening … I'm planning to redo my 'above ground' planter boxes later today.
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KurtP
/ March 18, 2012Think about renting a Mini-E next time
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DaddyBear
/ March 18, 2012Julie, if we ever do any major updating on the landscape, I'm going to look into doing that. After about 6 inches, it was all very wet clay.
KurtP – Irish Woman suggested it, actually. I, of course, told her we didn't need one. Pride goeth before the fall and all that.
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