2010-Aug-01, Sunday

still not finished

2010-Aug-01, Sunday 04:42 pm
mellowtigger: (gardening)
patio 2010.08.01All of the patio bricks are laid, but I still have a lot of work to do.  The unevenness of the cinder block "frame" for the patio is more severe than I first thought.  It wasn't a problem until the last 8 rows of bricks.  I think I have a parallelogram frame instead of a square frame.  :(

Notice the dark gap on the bottom right corner.  That gap should not be there.  I had to create an equal amount of extra space on the left side by pushing the cinder blocks closer to the garage wall.

Next weekend, I'll reconsider the whole frame.  Either hug the garage wall more closely than I want to do, or push the whole patio farther away from the garage. (Yes, that option means that I have to lift up every single brick to move it.  Yuck.)  I should have calculated the diagonal for a 121 " x 121" square and measured both of them before laying the bricks. I would have discovered right away that my "square" was off slightly. Lesson learned.

chive bunny, 2nd generationIf weather cooperates again next weekend, maybe I'll finally get the patio done.

Several times today, a new bunny has hopped out of the garden to watch me while I worked.  Zhey is too small to be either of the other bunnies from earlier this spring.  Could I already have a 2nd generation chive bunny in the yard?  Or the runt of the same litter as the other two bunnies?  Or somebody birthed a very late litter this year?

There's not nearly as much clover now as there was this spring.  Chive bunny ate a lot of it.  Hopefully this new bunny is finding something edible around here.

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