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Still ahead of the hoped for, planned for summer rains of July! Adobe work continues and here’s a little guided walking tour for today – after reading my mother’s letters about TOMBOY me as a little girl, I suppose I should post here a sign WARNING TOMBOY AT WORK!
Short adobe wall around the Mulberry tree, probably the ONLY place I will allow Bermuda grass to thrive. In that triangle to the left are more tomatoes and two furrows of carrots! Two of the neighbor boys scampered over last week with their precious package of carrot seeds that their father had bought them. The seven-year-old planted 1/3 of the pack, rest to be planted later in the garden I am forming today after the rains come.Made some extra bricks yesterday, first in a long time I've had extra dirt, have to lay them down on cloth so they don't damage underlying walkway. Color is off on this one, that's the Pomegranate which also got its own little all around it yesterday, has mulch under it. To the left at lower corner will also be another contained garden. There are little glass half-marbles embedded in the adobe mortar between bricks on right.Another contained garden area 'growing' there to the left looking south. My poor chairs, were free, but plastic gets eaten by sun here and they have no bottoms! There by the tree I am making an adobe bench - far more durable when done!Tomatoes down there to the right of center wall, am working on next contained garden to the leftShovel and level are providing temporary stability to board-form for triangle joining blockLaying a single-block-wide stepping path down the center of next contained garden - good soil is too expensive and valuable to waste where footsteps pack the groundThere's a little cedar tree there in the small contained garden that my sister in Texas brought me. Hope is that it will continue to grow as the Mulberry dies and can replace it for shade - though not in my lifetime. Also planted two Stargazer lily bulbs in there yesterday ($4 each on sale!)
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Fun to go back and see these “in progress” pictures, now that I’ve seen your work in person. You did a truly amazing and beautiful job!
This is looking amazing, Linda! You’re truly an architect, besides being an adobe wizard. I am really impressed.
When the rains come everything will grow overnight like the tropics! I truly hope my adobes don’t MELT!