!!!! SEPP to Boot: Stephen's Experience (BEL)

BRK #257

Brief update today. Let's start off with the kitties. Seems like there are four of them. I think my flash and rustling around may have woken up one of them from its nap. Little kitty toes and claws sticking up over there.



For Mike Haasl: we have peeled all of what may be useful as stair steps for your PTJ project. Things are coming along.



Finally: the new Basecamp well project is picking up more steam. I teamed up with SEPPer Jeff to pick up electric cable and water pipe from town today. Here are those parts in the back of Toots (our passenger van). We took out the seats so there would be room, as we didn't know just how big the load of materials would be.



That's all for now. Thanks for reading, and enjoy your day...!

Thanks Stephen, you guys are the best!

BRK #258

There were lots of moving parts to this week, and I'm grateful for the "day off" that Saturday provides.

Today was full of what I call "Little Nature," the kind of stuff you notice only when you're up to your elbows in the garden. For instance, here's a spider moving house, likely off to greener, corn-free pastures (I was planting at the time).



When growing in hugel berms, there's often a chunk or two of wood. Well, this is the second example I have of the main root of an unassuming blade of grass literally piercing said chunk of wood. The second one I saw today had worked its way completely through the wood chunk.



This little fellow is unwelcome, in my opinion. I tossed it away from the hugel berm, hoping that a bird would swoop down and snatch it up before too long. I'm just heartless.



Here's what remains of a gift of "storing onions." Thanks, Samantha! We're looking forward to snacking on a few fried onions this autumn. SEPPer Catherine changed out the water today so they'll stay fresh before planting.



Finally: credit where credit is due. Caleb has done admirable work on the new well trench. First he had to fashion a ramp so the excavator would navigate the path along the trench, then he set to work on what will be over 400 feet of trench. Maybe one more day's worth of digging, and then the well is 80% in there. Well done, man.





That's all for now. Make the most of your weekend...!

Stephen B. Thomas wrote:BRK #258Maybe one more day's worth of digging, and then the well is 80% in there. Well done, man.

Would you care to clarify, is the well at 80%, is it done, or are you making the sort of pun so convoluted that it will bring the ancient ones to address your blasphemy...?

Coydon Wallham wrote:Would you care to clarify, is the well at 80%, is it done, or are you making the sort of pun so convoluted that it will bring the ancient ones to address your blasphemy...?

Ugh. My only excuse is that it was a late-night post...!

Well is 80% complete. I think Caleb did an excellent job so far with the trench.

I can't slap my forehead enough times to ensure that these sorts of literary-idiomatic slip-ups won't occur again. Seems like it's ingrained in my nature.