The second project is has just started. What we thought would be only a day's worth of work, looks like it could be a week. We are building a garden in our back yard and to make it nice we need to make it level, so we are building a box. The box must have a border of paving stones on the top because of the way the water comes off the roof. Without the stones, there would be a 2 foot hole in the ground due to the water run-off. Well, after buying just about all the supplies and equipment that we would need, we started to dig, only to realize that a shovel was not going to get through the Georgia mud and clay that was below the grass. Jaynee ventured out to the store again and returned with a pickaxe and a mattock (a hand held pickaxe). Once she returned with those tools, what could have taken a full week to dig only lasted 1 day. It would have been shorter, but I still needed to complete some homework. The girls wanted to help, so we allowed them to join us and load up a bucket with dirt. They were able to stay outside with us for nearly 1 hour. That was pretty impressive. Shortly after that I needed a timeout to work on homework. So I went to work on homework and Jaynee played with the girls. After putting the girls down for the night we return to our archeological dig pit and finished it up. The next step is to cut the wood and create the framework necessary to support a garden and the paver stones. We were hoping to work on the frames Monday, but it looks like there will be lots of rain that day, so our dig pit will soon turn into the canals of Venice, Italy. There will be more pictures after our canals fill up.
These pictures show some before and after shots of our work thus far along with the girls helping us.
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