A tweaked neck has slowed me down considerably since mid-October. It's the morning of November 7, and as I type this, the neck situation is finally resolving itself. I'm feeling much better and getting antsy about big progress being made.
The shop materials have been delivered. However, we've exited our second drought of the summer months and are now at the beginning of our usually wet fall and winter. Rain delays have already pushed the shop assembly back by a week and a half. I find myself deliberately focusing on patience. Patience is what I need right now.
Jamie and partially I have gone down the permaculture rabbit hole. We are starting on the cleared strip to the left of the driveway for soil building and flower seeding. This area will be a pollinator garden come spring. We likely won't have much structure in this area. Just a small meadow of wildflowers.
I'm also becoming a big fan of concrete washout. As the name implies, it is the material washed out of concrete trucks after they return from a job, especially when too much material is ordered. I'm using more of it to extend the driveway into the clearing and up to the shop door. I'll continue getting more of this to wrap the driveway around the back of the shop, under the lean-to, and anywhere else we seem to be driving the most. The price changes due to
delivery methods and the volume purchased, but I'm averaging around $10 per yard delivered. That's not too shabby, in my opinion.
