1st August 2020
I am alway apprehensive when Kelli has an announcement, mainly because it usually means a lot of work in a unrealistic timescale.
Now I’m very ambitious with my work planning, but it stretches me a little, but with Kelli “ideas” means creating heaven and earth in less than six days.
Today Kelli decreed it was removal of the front bushes day, and position the three galvanised troughs in their place, or so we thought.
It was a much harder task than we both thought it would be.
We remove one of the infected bushes, it was hard and quite messy. It required cutting the branches in order to get to the main stem, then brute strength to remove the root.
Once it came away, the job of raking up the pebbles began. It took a long time to move them, the rake didn’t work very well, I found it was easier to do it with my hands. I had to create a hole six foot by two foot to take the trough, and stop the pebbles from falling back in.
The first trough we picked had a slight twist, that I couldn’t correct. I tried to bend it in the opposite way hoping it would improve, but after several attempts it didn’t move a jot.
I levelled it the best I could, hoping the weight of soil would help (nope it didn’t) I then back filled with the pebbles. This was the first of three, I can’t wait to start on the others.
Another Lifetime to go 