Emptying humanure, and more blocks

 We reached Wednesday as the weeks keep zipping by and today Rosie was back to school, which gave Angela a much needed break as it is exhausting keeping up with that one.

Rosie places the pine cones on the edge of the grass

Halil taking "done" humanure to the hugelkultur

Weeding away

The first delivery of the day

Nice weeded hugelkultur

I had the pleasure of dropping her at school this morning and after the ritual of watching for buses (we saw a blue one) and also a digger I walked her to the school door (pausing for her to move some pine cones off the path - she refuses to walk past them) where she showed her new flashing light shoes to her teacher. She really is a joy. Mostly. When I got back I suggested that the men may want to empty the two "finished" humanure collection points before they built the walls up higher and they agreed so Bekir shovelled and Halil emptied onto the hugelkultur. Bekir had also been able to source some more blocks lcoally so he ordered these and while I was outside weeding the other half of the hugelkultur so Halil could continue emptying the humanure onto it, the delivery arrived and was unloaded. I managed to get all the weeding done over lunch which freed space for Halil, and also ticked off another chore.

Wetting down the wall again

Another delivery arrives

Building up the collection point walls

Nearly done for the day

Hugelkultur covered in soil

After lunch Bekir and Halil completed the emptying of the humanure and the mixed cement and wet down the wall again, before the second delivery arrived so now we have enough blocks to complete the job. With the delivery unloaded they went back under the trees and spent the rest of the day building up the walls around the two collection points we will end up with. I really hope this works; if it doesn't then we'll clean them out and use them as kennels or something. Anyway, the end of the day saw all the blocks to about the same height. It's not far off done. The Hugelkultur is also now covered in lovely rich soil which can be shifted into our new raised beds when we get to them.

There we are then; another day done. Thanks for reading.