Tuesday, March 20, 2012

For Our Sins, Work on the Hard Rock Pile!




I forgot to show you what we did instead of finishing the greenhouse. Actually, there were several jobs passed around. I'm not sure what all of them were. Some had to start digging a new foundation hole next to this house, but I don't have pictures, more's the pity, of them slaving to dig out the most amazingly heavy clay you ever tried to muck out of the ground! Chris McKenzie said it well: "This stuff is glue!"
Several of us, though, were set to moving this pile of gravel inside the house and spreading it around evenly, in preparation for pouring concrete floors. It involved wheelbarrow load after wheelbarrow load after wheelbarrow load of gravel, many cooperative shovels, a square shovel (and boots) for shoving it all around neatly inside, and more muscle and sweat than we thought we had left at the end of the week!

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