Saturday, April 18, 2015

16 cubic yards

Plus 2 wheelbarrows (1 borrowed from a friend).  Plus other gardening prep work.  Plus five hours. Equals a lot of mulch left to shovel/wheelbarrow/dump/spread, and also equals 2 very sore, exhausted grownups! E and C were home today and helped for an hour each, after they each had soccer practice, so they are tired, too. 
The old swingset area got about 10-11 of those yards... It is deep in a lot of the area. We will hopefully have an outdoor table area there soon, and hopefully my half-high blueberry plants will be delivered soon, to go into my new hugelkultured barrels(a trick I learned at a gardening class)...
The wheelbarrows will be waiting for round two tomorrow (and maybe into the week).  Over the past four days I estimated that I've done outdoor manual labor for 25hrs.  My lower back is throbbing!