Sunday, April 13, 2008

Chapter 8 - Bricks

Today (Sunday) was a super busy day - the garden has been built (or at least the first sections!). But more on that in the next chapter. This chapter is dedicated to Saturday.

On Friday my seeds arrived! They came in a small manila envelope - garlic chives and dinosaur kale. Sweeeet. I put them aside to save for planting on the weekend.

On Saturday morning I got a car for an hour and drove to Discount Builders Supply (a local hardware/lumber store) to buy some things I knew I'd need for the garden. The main thing I needed to get here was bricks, which turned out to be pretty cheap, but kinda heavy!

I ended up buying 12 bricks, as well as a small garden rake and two tarps. The bricks were out in the lumberyard, so I had to haul them in a little wagon to the cashier, then out to the car where I loaded them up and drove home. At home I backed into the garage and put the bricks in the little back alleyway behind my house.

That was about all the garden work I did on Saturday - after this, I was off to Golden Gate Park to enjoy the beautiful summer weather. The big task of putting the garden together happened today, and it's going to take at least one whole chapter (or maybe more!) to cover it all.

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