BEL #782
A Monday in May, and we're back at it. Lots of healthy rain over the weekend to help the seeds while we were away. We had two
WWOOF Week participants stick around and want to stay as Boots, and that's great.
Speaking of which, fellow Boot
Shawn and I were at work in the
Bark Park today, chipping away at the main gate. We removed one of the gate posts, dug a wider post hole with the electric auger, then dropped the new post in place.
I continued work on the gate itself in the afternoon. Thanks to
Fred's previous video help, I'm crafting an angular support for the inner portion of this gate. Again, shooting for tenon and mortise joints to hold it in place. We'll also have junk pole "pickets" nailed on the gate, so with all that support I think the gate ought to last for a while.
At the morning meeting today, I told the rest of the team, "If we bring back some walking onions, I promise I'll process them and put them all in a soup." So they bring back four buckets full of 'em.
In other news... Looks like the landslide is shaping up as hoped. Lots of taproot species growing in there, primarily daikon radish. Once the greenery is all established there, we'll trim down those posts so they don't wick away as much water over time. But for now, they provide some crucial support and can't be removed without consequences.
One last image for today. After
Seth and I started work with the Shower Shack last week, we noticed that this temperature/psi gauge was leaking water. "It's like a lava lamp," I described during today's morning meeting. I uninstalled it today, re-wrapped it with teflon tape, and reinstalled it, to no avail. Something inside the gauge has broken/failed, and it seems like a replacement is in order.
This Boot Team is a solid bunch of good, hard-workin' folks. I'm grateful for all of them.
That's all for now. Thanks for reading, and enjoy your day...!