from the indelible
appleang Alan and Robert making the ditch ready for the culvert
Ezra, Michelle, myself and Mona stabbing the rock-hard earth of my eventual perennials bed, while Baxter supervises from the background:
Thistle, sacked out in the shade from all the excitement:
but not too excited to pose for another gratuitous puppy photo:
Tristan and Kay conferring over lunch in the shade:
Alan in the acequia, the newly-pruned mulberry tree to the left:
that ditch took a lot of supervising:
Mona, Bex, Alan, & Tristan look on while Renick finishes attaching the coupler to the culvert.
Three layers of shoulders, and a coupler:
not content with hanging out in the ditch, Robert digs himself into a deep hole:
(finishing Alan's cold frame garden bed)
Alan and I win against the caliche, supervised by Tristan, who was ferrying wheelbarrows:
the Scenic View:
Bex and Tristan, unloading clay onto the half-finished bridge:
Alan and the finished hole in the ground:
me, and my half-finished half-moon hole in the ground: