Wed May 7 09:49:32 PDT 2003
Well, after a lot of work last weekend, we got the raised garden beds built, filled in and planted with all kinds of good stuff. We ended up switching to 5×8 beds to get a little more room on the south end of the lot for a Fuji Apple tree. Construction was fairly easy, but I’m thinking I like the Weyerhaeuser product better than the LP. I ended up getting the stake material from Lowe’s in LO since the Home Depot in LO didn’t carry Trex (LP’s product). Weyerhaeuser has more wood in their product so it seems a bit stiffer and less rubbery that the Trex and I think it would be less likely to split. I had some issues with some of the screws splitting the Trex product when assembling the beds when the screw was around 1 inch away from the edge. Greater than 1-inch from edges and the product seemed to do OK, but driving the screws into this stuff was pretty hard, even with drilling fair-sized pilot holes.
We also got some of the other stuff in along with cleaning out the southwest corner of the lot. We took some photos:
We still have a few things left to do, like planting the blueberry bushes and moving the dogwood north along the fence so we can put the new flowering (but non-fruiting) pear tree in it’s spot since we think it will make a better, i.e. bigger, shade tree.
This week is pretty long, but the weekend should be fun. I’m going to try and do the "May Day Project" on Saturday. It’s a project were lots of people take photos every hour of the day to give a "day in the life of" kind of feel from people all over the world. It sounds like fun, and we’ll probably be doing interesting stuff that day like the Turkana Goat Roast that Sarah is putting on for the Church.
I’m a bit unhappy with the new CF cardreader that I got. It appears to be messing up the filesystem of CF cards when I try and read it using my linux box. More on that later.