First, my brother-in-law has been hard at work getting a large room progressed. He has put in some wood trim and sanded, and prepped it for finishing. Once this is done, he will work on getting the rest of the walls ready for painting. But there is still one door frame that needs to be installed, next week.
Yesterday I set to cleaning up a mess in the yard. I don't have any before pictures, but do have the after.
First I cleaned up a large pile of loose and decomposing hay. This amounted to two loads worth, one in a trailer, and one in a small truck bed, about 2 cubic yards or so each. Loose hay is troublesome as it does not shovel. But I got it all cleaned up and back to the pile at the west end of the yard and unloaded.
Once done, the brown horse trailer got moved back to the pictured position where the pile had been.As for the pile it needed some sorting. I took a load of loose branches and loaded them into the truck and carted them to another part of the yard and unloaded them into a pile waiting to be chipped into another pile for composting.
Finally I got to the main project, moving a composting pile out of the middle of the yard and putting it on the edge. This took several hours, and four loads of compost and dirt. Most of it could be forked, but some of it had to be shoveled at the end. Some of this compost is looking pretty tasty, so far as compost goes.
In the end I moved several cubic yards of stuff. At some point my sister and her husband are going to spread this onto some part of the yard. in the mean time it may need to be turned, to get all the stuff decomposing and in a state ready for giving up its minerals to whatever is grown in it.
Today, I spent the morning helping a friend move. I helped he and a crew of ten or so people load the truck and clear out of their apartment. Then I went and helped another crew of over ten adults and as many children unload the truck.
I'm tired. I'm going home now.
