WHAT a great weekend! Three days (since Chad took Friday off) of hanging out in our backyard, moving dirt around and burning stuff. What could be better? (In fact, when I texted Chad on Wednesday to convince him to take Friday off, I said, “We could get out the fire pit and burn stuff.” And that’s when he responded with, “I just sent in the request.”)
We celebrated our camping debacle with dinosaur pancakes on Saturday morning.
And then, the guys headed out back while I headed to the library book sale. Huzzah!
We have been working on this section of our yard for several years. We used to have a huge maple tree here that was slowly dying and dropping branches through the roof and into the yard. Finally, two years ago, we had it taken down and sawn into huge chunks, all of which were left strewn about. I had been using this area for my composting as well. My ten years of composting. That’s a lot of compost. Last fall, we built the three-bin compost system, and we have slowly been transitioning from big random piles to small, not-so-random piles. The plan here is to level out the side by the garage and build raised beds for veggies, as this area faces south and gets a lot of sun. We will eventually have a tidy pathway as well and I won’t cringe and look away every time I sit back here!
First, we burned everything in our “burn pile,” which consisted mostly of the rose canes from my climber in the front bed. I gave it a severe pruning last fall, hoping to prevent that horrible black leaf spot mold stuff that is trying to kill it and break my heart. We then moved the compost tumbler over to the compost side where the burn pile had been. We are going to use the tumbler for kitchen scraps, so the neighborhood raccoons stop making a huge mess out there all the time. Sorry, neighbors, if we smoked you out this weekend. A built-in stone fire pit is also in the works for the summer. We are a family of pyromaniacs.
See that pile that Aiden is working on? Compost. Beautiful, beautiful compost. That is going into the raised beds.
We splurged this time and ordered these amazing corners. When we built our other raised beds, we just used screws to assemble them. Chad likes this system much better! This is the 4×4 bed, and we are also going to do a 4×8 bed.
And then, we grilled pizza.
It was so good, we made the ugly face.
Everything about your weekend looks absolutely scrumptious!! Miss you tons.