The last couple days have been pretty busy. It took both days to dig
\nout the hole, and tomorrow we’re going to spend the day filling it back
\nin. It’s amazing how rocky the ground is here. Not only are there alot
\nof huge rocks, but there are hundreds of little ones. It looks like it
\ncould be fill from when the house was built, or the addition was built,
\nand then buried later. We managed to get the bigger rocks out of it as
\nwe went, and we’ll try to get some of the smaller ones out as we put it
\nback in. It’s just as well that we didn’t get the tiller, it’d probably
\nbreak trying to crush through the giant rocks here.<\/p>\n
Our current plan is to fill in a fair amount of the dirt we dug up,
\non top of a layer of straw (which we’ve had since last summer when we
\ngot it for cat beds). Then we’ll put down a layer of the new soil we
\ngot, and mix it together with the rake, then more of the old soil, and
\nthe new soil again, then later on put on the fertilizer, and more straw
\nonce the seeds are planted and growing a bit. That way the seeds will
\nhave nice soil to grow in, and we can cut down on the weeds with the
\nstraw. The edging will go in before the last of the old and new soil,
\nso we can bury it as we go rather than dig a new trench after we fill
\nit in. We’ll probably have to buy a couple more bags of soil to get a
\ngood mix, we only have 3 bags right now, and that won’t spread far. I
\ndon’t want to end up with a big hump of soil in the yard either though.<\/p>\n
I’m pretty happy with how it’s going overall. It’s been hard work to
\ndig the big hole (it’s over a foot deep, and 8 feet by 4 feet now).
\nThere are two giant piles of dirt on tarps, and another pile of rocks,
\nto show for it. We took a couple more pictures today so everyone can
\nsee our progress. Hopefully it’ll grow well and we’ll have nice
\nvegitables later this summer. <\/p>\n
In other news, we tried a new Chinese buffet tonight. Royal Buffet,
\nin Enfield. It’s about half an hour away, but it was really good.
\nSomeone had told us it was good and we wanted to try it out. It’s only
\n$10.95 for dinner, and $1 for soda. It’s got 6 buffet tables of food, 2
\nof which are almost all dessert items. There’s a bunch of seafood,
\nwhich doesn’t do much for me, but it was good if you like that kind of
\nthing. The usual Chinese items were all there, like Mongolian Beef,
\nChicken Teriaki, General Tso’s Chicken, fried rice, white rice, wonton
\nsoup, hot and sour soup, etc etc. There’s over 130 items every day.
\nPlus they have a sushi bar, and a Mongolian bbq style thing, where you
\npick out your raw ingredients and they stir-fry it on the spot for you.
\nWe didn’t bother with that since there was enough else to eat, but it’s
\nnice to have if you want it. I’ve never been good at picking good
\nspices to go with my food, so I don’t enjoy it as much as the prepared
\nfoods. The food was all really good, and they had a great selection.
\nThey even had self-serve prime-rib if you want it. For the price it was
\nreally good, and would be a bargain even if it cost more. Lunch is
\nserved ’till 3pm, and is only $6. We’ll definately go back again
\nsometime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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