Day 7 - BRK
Today was
boot gardening day. We started with watering the hugels as always , and I set out to Chopping and dropping, harvesting potatoes, & planting bunches of garlic.
In the afternoon, we proceeded to work on the solarium. Which is high on the priority list. We got the main posts that are against the garage secured with carriage bolts, and are still working on getting all of the posts leveled and notched uniformly. We also marked the top beam for the rafter and post cutouts. There’s still quite a bit of work to be done.
After finishing fir the day, Grey and I decided to go for a swim at the river. The
water was fairly cold, but wonderfully refreshing. Grey also stumbled upon a couple of apples floating in a creek that runs into the river. I thought it a bit strange at first. I’m guessing he got curious and followed the creek up through a culvert, low anc behold the tree those apples came from. There were hundreds more! I was stricken with joy and excitement upon this discovery. Grey and I harvested quite the load of them. Probably 20lbs or so total.
When we returned home, we decided to make some
apple sauce, and spent a couple of hours washing and quartering them. I’ll let y’all know how the
apple sauce was!
What a great day.
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