Building the Long Beds, Day 2

The weather held out for us today, and it was a gorgeous day to be outside.  The redwing blackbirds on the property are in rare form, and were up with me and the sunrise, perching amidst the buds in our maples and making their twitter-screeches en-masse.

We got out early and got working.  Last week served us well as practice to hone our technique, and we hit our stride early.  The rows went down a lot more quickly this weekend than they did last Sunday.  I think the weather helped a lot... it was a lot more pleasant to be outside today.

We had run out of landscaping fabric last Sunday, and so we also needed to extend our area of coverage to get the full four beds installed.  Fortunately, the wind kept to a minimum.

Around 2pm, we heard a plane in the sky, and saw it coming towards us flying low.  I had a sneaking suspicion that it might actually be friends of ours... my coworker Meg and her boyfriend Grant like to take his plane up on the weekends, and I knew they had tried to fly over the farm before.  Sure enough, the plane banked around and circled the farm several times.  

We waved a lot.  It was pretty neat.  We've never had friends visit us in a plane before.  Meg was even nice enough to snap us some aerial shots of the farm!

We kept working, and working, and working.  Soon all the blocks seemed to blur together... at some point we had lunch.  At some other point Leah went inside and took a nap.  At some point I finished the fourth row, and voila!  We're ready to add soil and gravel.