Creative Zone!

The big bottle wall is getting started, slowly. So far I have hauled in 2 yards of sand on my trailer ($60.34). I gathered scrap 2 x 8 s and made a 4ft x 12ft sand box to create our bottle designs in before we start building it. The sand box below has just under a yard of sand in it. For those of you that do not know what a yard is, it is 27 cubic foot. You can see one blue bottle in the lower right corner. Getting a yard of gravel tomorrow, then we'll be able to start the digging. Looking at the footer digging it should be a lot of work.

The creative zone (aka sandbox) should get three designs in it as the bottle wall should be that long.

I also have a electric cement mixer I bought in the back of my van. Not a very expensive one, it should mix 250 lbs of concrete or mortar at a time. Might save my back and shoulders a lot of aches and pains. I have a deck to build next week, I plan on doing the footers with it.

More news about our garden, we are going to start beekeeping. My friend Jan is going to help me get it started. I've a queen on order but we have one obstacle, bees need to be ordered in November, nobody has any. We are joining to local beekeeping club and going to the monthly meeting next week. Hoping somebody can help us out with bees.

Here is another photo of the driveway Flower Records and Pickwick crocuses. I keep wanting a good open flower photo, but the sun spoils the shot, when the sun goes away the flowers close.... We had a new light blue crocus bloom today, a total surprise as they just popped out of the ground with blooms. They might be tommies, I got them from Brent and Becky's late last fall.

 Camellia baby number 2! Those leaves are nickle sized. I do not know what variety of camellias my camellia seedlings are from.  I mixed all the seeds up, making it all a mystery we'll have for the next 3-5 years. We have one plant I took seeds from in our garden that has red in the leaves, hum.  Number 1 seedling has 4 quarter sized leaves already.

Baby Moon daffodil planted in the fall of 2009, these blooms are just over an inch. It is a miniature daffodil. Bloomed much later last year, I had a swallowtail butterfly nectaring on them.

The seeds we planted  two Sundays ago are coming up. The radishes, arugula and mizuna are what is sprouting thus far. Still eating all the lettuce, mustard greens and kale we can eat, have given a lot away to friends too.