Drawing Plans Again

25 -26 February 2020

Work continues at full speed.  So much to do, so much getting done.

 Dave takes a grinder and file to the rebar that sticks out past the front of the structure

 We move one of the tanks to level it up, and a temporary bit of pipe falls in.  Dave fishes around for it with the net and manages to retrieve it.

 In the absence of the workforce, we get a chance to work in the corner immediately outside the music room door.  Next to the wall is a channel that was clean gravel, with a perforated pipe in the ditch to collect rainwater spilling over the gutters and carry it away from the house.  We don't want this channel to be paved over, or filled with sand.  So we established a boundary, wide enough for a path, dug out weeds and dirty gravel, then made a gulley for the blue water pipe.  After the area is paved, we can put in clean gravel and bring it up to level with the pavers.

Around now, I developed a little twinge at my waist, probably from all the digging and lifting and barrowing, and had to slow down a bit.

 Meanwhile, in the shed - the mushroom bale has produced a second sprouting, and once again we have a feast of mushrooms coming daily.

 When Constantine the architect came to measure the house for the final permit application, he suggested we include any other structures we want to build.  So we measured up for a car-port, which will variously: protect the car; allow us to relocate the old solar panels off the 'zone' structure, to free up another bit of garden; and give us a roof at the top of the land to collect even more rainwater that can gravity-feed the south front beds.  All good things.

 We have quite a few self-seeded borage plants currently in flower in the hugel beds, which they seem to like enormously.  I was walking past this one when I was struck by how incredible it looked from above - so I stopped to take a photo.

The workforce are back - nice line parallel with the walls outside the music room.