After our long day on Saturday, about 4 hours working on THF and then more hours spent at the NY State Fair (my pedometer showed me having walked 16,611 steps), we were just about done with our planting row. One more push on Sunday should do the trick.
So there we were once again, at THF about 7 am getting unloaded and ready for work.
For this project we need the sifter, the generator, extension cord, shovels, gloves, hats, pick ax, wheel barrow, and for me, bug spray from now on. I have come home with numerous bites over the past few weeks. Enough is enough.
We lucked out with the weather. Overcast again so it wasn’t too hot. And the breeze came and went just enough to cool us off when needed. Still it was hard work. Because we are always trying to make it easier to get the work done, I thought of what I hoped would be a more efficient way of getting the dirt into the sifter. We started to half fill some buckets and then dump them into the sifter. It was easier than tossing each shovelful onto the sifter. Jo was in charge of lifting the buckets of dirt, so she got a really good workout. I did a lot of the wheel barrow work. Taking loads of rocks to our current tiny house. We are looking to surround it with rocks. It will look nicer and hopefully keep some of the bugs and critters away.
We had a good routine going and charged through the rest of the row. And what a relief it was to be done.
You can just barely make it out, but Ron is holding up one finger on right hand and five on the left. That means we are done with one row and have five more to go. He has plans of expansion, you see. This whole section he wants to be full of garlic in years to come. So that means lots more rock picking and soil sifting for us. And anyone else we can talk into helping us. Just remember we feed our workers well. And a workout at THF is better than a gym membership. You will not only burn off some serious calories, but you will have a pile of rocks to show for your efforts. And you take then home with you too.