Pete and Kelli’s social distance day 80
6th June 2020
We both were up early as we had volunteered ourselves to help with the restoration of her mother’s front garden.
The local members of her church were going to do a “Make-over” and we had the honour of doing the main piece on the front lawn.
When we arrived God’s team were already well into it. Out went old unwanted trees and shrubs, Eden was being transformed.
I surveyed the site, we had to construct an oval shaped centre piece incorporating a large boulder.
With the aid of a piece of rope, I scratched out two arcs and eye-balled the rest. The hardest part was cutting the steel edging, with a hacksaw blunt as a badger’s arse.
Bathed in sweat I managed to make the cuts and fit the edging. Finally a bit of mulching, and some re-planting, and it was finished.
We bagged the leftover mulch and headed back home.
Just for a change we mulched our own flower beds.
It was so nice to have a shower afterwards, I looked forward to a quiet peaceful evening to nurse my sunburn.
Of course nothing goes to plan. We had just finished eating when a friend dropped round to tell Kelli that there was a free dresser on the side of the road.
That was like the sirens went off, we were off, shoes on, truck started, the search was on.
We drove off so fast we missed it the first time as we were told it was a couple of blocks down the road, when in fact it was a lot closer.
The dresser was a little ropy, obviously it had come from a damp garage, but that is what we do, take crap, and make it beautiful again.
Another Lifetime to go 