Thinking Inside the Box (Part Deux)

Since it's currently in the thirties and snowing, with snowflakes as big as really big snowflakes, let me show you what I did on Monday when it was in the eighties.

This is our slightly sloping garden space, roughly thirty-five feet wide, by seventy feet deep. That's my lovely vintage Mazda B2000 long-bed pickup in the background.

The former owner had a small garden in the foreground. Today's task is to rototill about half the space and level it out somewhat before placing and filling the four raised beds on Tuesday. 

I rented this nine-horse Honda rototiller from Des Moines Rental. It was a beast and I just managed to till this in the two-hour rental period.

This next bit put the man in manual labor: scooping and distributing loads of dirt eight cubic yards at a time (sweet Jesus) for about three hours. Slept pretty well Monday night.

Check out the next posting to see all we did Tuesday, another freakishly warm day brought to you by primate-induced climate change.