Today's work was a mix of Hive, wheelbarrow trips, hoeing, raking, and digging, ending with a little firepit action for Monkey-B and I.
Free Dirt Is The Best Dirt 👷♂️
There are so many places on our property that need a little extra dirt, mostly because of erosion problems that none of the previous owners ever dealt with. One area I have been working is the former fish pond turned snake pond. I filled the bottom of the pit with broken concrete roof and ceramic floor tiles, then began backfilling the area with dirt from across the old road and the highway.
The dirt in the ditch at the edge of the highway and the cliff above it is a mix of sand and clay, and this stuff is the most plentiful, easy to dig, and easy to move because every direction is downhill from here, much easier than hauling rocks uphill from the river. When I've got the amount of dirt I want, I like to just go across the old road to scrape a gray rocky layer with my hoe, then add that as the last layer because it prevents the clay layer from sticking to shoes and feet and basically anything it touches.
Raking Rocks 🪨
These kind of non-technical projects provide great quick escapes from mentally draining Hive work. I can do a wheelbarrow dirt run anytime, as many as I want, and it keeps me fit without having to waste time exercising for the sake of exercising.
The gray rocks are a nice top layer, and very easy to rake and smooth over. The last and final layer will be big flat river rocks that will be friendly to bare feet. The firepit will likely eventually be relocated to the middle of this little area, and the space will be just big enough to offer circular seating around the firepit. Being so close to the house makes it more likely that we'll make fires in the evening and enjoy the ambience and heat.
The Old Firepit View ⛰️
I must admit the old firepit view was pretty scenic, but we never really made much fires during the day, and at night you can't see much of the scenery anyways, but you can definitely feel the cold river air and the mountain also sends some pretty extreme winds down the mountain on most nights. The new space is shielded by the house on two sides, so it's a lot more practical.
Fire Time 🔥
With the evening approaching, I decided to make a small fire for Monkey-B and I to enjoy. I like to stack the wood like a jenga tower and light a small fire on top because it provides a maintenance-free for several hours. This is the way I used to build fires when I lived in Colorado where the temperature often got below -40°C at night. I always had to wake up in the wee hours of the morning to add a few logs to the fire, but this stacking method prevented the need to add a log every few hours.
Most of the time fires are lit from the bottom, but fire likes to travel upward and quickly burns everything. A small fire lit on top will slowly work its way down to the bottom, and uses much less wood over a longer period of time. With a maintenance-free fire the conversation flows more freely, but there is still a deep caveman-istic desire to play with the fire, so Monkey-B satisfies this primal urge by holding sticks over the fire and igniting the tip.
That pretty much sums up the day folks, so stay tuned...
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