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And planting beds final edge shaping and stone placement. Long stair set location also was completed. Now all i need is to dig the giant holes for the two-three inground fish tanks/ponds and then get them set and leveled and filled with water so they can endure some good rainfall to help them and the water weight settle everything where it's happy. Then i can spread the granite stone dust and s...

I'm checking out how well i did manually leveling the Japanese Courtyard. The puddles never lie. They are a perfect visual aid to determine where i need to add a little soil here and there to get everything close then i'll add stone dust that can be screeded with a long straight edge piece of magnesium stock for leveling concrete. Then i can add the Finish white sand to about two to three inche...

Since the pond tanks are about a third completed i decided that i better get started laying out the underground plumbing and drain system to tie everything together from capturing rainwater to filtering the pond water and using the nutrient rich water from the Fish living in the water to irrigate my vegetable crops and get away from Commercial fertilizers and even local manure that no longer be...

Since we are into this very long dry spell and my two 1500 gallon rainwater storage tanks are empty, i'm tired of hand watering the two big greenhouses every other day. Even when we are in the middle 90's i have to water twice a day, and standing inside a 110 degree GH is Hell. So i engineered a backup system for irrigation on my drip line tape by back feeding water from my well to supply water...

I Discovered something has been nibbling on my Tomato plants in the back of the number 1 greenhouse so i had to use a cattle panel temporary to stop the midnight raid on my Outdoor Refrigerator. Then i started back rebuilding the fish tank to repurpose it into a garden pond.

Another day of mid 90's is making it hard to get stuff done. The heat even burned up my old antique drill so i'm at a standstill on anchoring beams until i can fix it or replace it. And i got a few things done before the heat chased me inside.

I Finally broke down and decided on the final location of the Garden's entry points and features and determined that the bulkheads are high enough to level the courtyard within 6 inches in it's 40 foot width. So now the fun begins, hand drilling the stacked beams and driving steel rebar down thru the holes into the hard clay base and lag bolting the beam's overlapped joints together.

After installing a new shade cloth in the First greenhouse to lower the extreme heat that was roasting my Tomato plants i decided to start releveling the courtyard by removing the hard red clay concrete, i mean soil back down to the composted topsoil underneath. Then i tried to cut the front yard grass but the lawn mower threw a idler pulley on the mowing deck and i had to go to town to get a h...

I Reset my rainwater storage tank and added some new valves for attaching hoses for watering the greenhouses and transferring water from one tank to another.

Well i figured it was time i better get my Japanese guttering system started so i can control the water coming off of the Tin roof into the flower beds washing the top soil away. The only issue is deciding what to do with the water once i get it to one spot. So i'm thinking of just running it into a 55 gallon barrel with a sump pump and pumping it up and into the big 1500 gallon storage tank be...

I Had to start my morning and evening work ritual again where i get up at 4-5 am and work till 10 am then go inside and hang out and maybe take a nap till 4 pm and eat supper at 5 then go back outside and work till o'dark thirty so i can get the same amount of work done without getting heat stroke which is a high probability now that i have Afib as the Doctors have told me. But i'll just have t...

After hand digging some of my drainage trench for my root cellar i finished the end run of the main back bulkhead and started on the walk thru gate and steps thru the Japanese style "Torii" entry way.

I'm still struggling thru the heat (89*) to finish setting out the last of the bulkhead beams so i can start drilling anchor holes in them and driving rebar down into the ground to hold them in place and to also set the last of the high bulkhead wall sections posts in concrete to help stabilize the mini wall.

After setting seeds out for container grown Virginia Peanuts and Birdhouse Gourds i started hauling dark topsoil from out front to start building the second layer of the Japanese courtyard planting beds and rough shaping them to the general shape they will end up with. I Have a base layer of composted cow manure then dark topsoil then there will be a thick layer of fresher composted cow manure ...

Bulkhead work for the Japanese Courtyard build.

Todays root cellar project update

Toro Dingo 222 Digging 24 inch wide holes for a 1500 gallon Koi Pond tank

Toro Dingo 222 digging 24 inch by 55 inch deep holes for concrete piers

Greenhouse soil sifting and treasure findings

Greenhouse clean out and prep for planting

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Leaf blower modification

Rainy/cold day hobby Model boat kits and scratch built boats

Game called due to 2 inches of Rain

How to decorate a Christmas tree when you are broke.

Playing with the outdoor patio lights

Enjoying the fruits of my labor

Back porch storage room cedar trim with hidden siding pockets

Getting ready for Winter on the old Homestead.