Collections

There is never a dull moment up here on Poplar Ridge.

On Thursday, this 80 foot semi came up our hill to deliver my parents' metal roofing material in the middle of a rain storm.



The following day, my brother arrived in Pittsburgh from Austin, TX to help with the roof raising this coming week. Here he is in the Hidey Hole with the girls, reading letters that some fairies left there for the girls.



Saturday the bulldozer dude arrived and flattened the area for our barn. The gravel for the floor of the barn and for the driveway will come later this week.



JP and I marked out the area for our veggie garden, and he started digging it up.



The whole thing will be 100' x 50'.



This weekend, I've been collecting things:

These rocks are for the raised shade bed that I plan to build on the North side of the house (are you proud, Martin?)



This is what is left of the sticks, small trees, rose bushes and grape vines that I've been grubbing out from around the trees in the yard. I managed to clean out around 4 more trees this weekend.

There are only 2 bushes left to plant from the small nursery worth that I have brought home lately. The girls and I made up a song, which can be sung to the tune of "12 Days of Christmas".

10 baby boxwoods
8 Cleveland pear trees
3 Forsythia
1 cotoneaster
2 maple trees
2 andromeda
and a Harry Lauder Walking Stick tree

There are some other things I've collected which are too disturbing to photograph, such as the scratches on my arms, the ticks, and the garbage JP and I picked up from down by the creek.

Kali also has an impressive collection of stitches on her belly from her spay surgery on Monday. She is back to acting nearly normal, although she still isn't eating much.

Starting tomorrow we will begin collecting volunteers for the roof raising, most of whom will stay here at the house.

Lest I repeat myself, there is never a dull moment up here on Poplar Ridge!