this is a "sled" that Jenny found. She likes things like this. that are simple, and work. Make things possible. It's just a very thick kind of plastic...or, whatever something like this is, vinyl maybe?....? Anyway....this is some of the old straw bedding that i cleared from the Doe Rain Shelter. Raked into a big pile outside the entrance where it's gotten rained on. a lot. Loaded this first batch today and yup, the sled slid easy and perfect down and around that corner and down to here, somehow not being bothered by rocks in the way at all, just slides right over them. And.....was easy enough to pull up and through the gate into the B Garden where i unloaded it on the new area for Earth planting in the Spring. I tried to get a second pic to "take " here of that but it wouldn't. I used some of the partially decomposed cardboard from around, then this. Will continue every day there's not rain. There's a Lot more. Over that will be that last bag of Garden Soil and then that bag of Mulch stuff. It'll be so Great. Will use the sled to bring the log branches that will be borders. Combined with rocks that will hold it all in place.
ADD: there are 3 wheelbarrows here. One of them that i 'd brought from N Mex.... a prized possession....but wheelbarrows go out of control here in a moment...the Hill....going down, OR, such impossible LABOR, going up
NPR Weekend Edition Saturday 11/13 author interview with Azra Aksamija the book Everyday Inventions from a Refugee Camp in Jordan
So much, but as i worked at this today, i thought about her telling of the Vertical Gardens there, in an endlessly bleak and stark landscape where planting Anything in the earth is prohibited. Repeat...PROHIBITED And so...the vertical gardens made of whatever can be found rising up against the walls of their one room shed housing to hold containers, plastic jugs, yogurt containers, to grow SEEDS they save that grow Food Just sit with this a minute. let it sink in.
