Rocks!

We started what will be a long process of moving rocks from a house South of Lawrence up to the Farm this week.  We'll be making many more trips over the coming few weeks (and probably months) so this is just the beginning.  We're hoping to get all the rock for the garden shed foundation moved in the next week or so. 

We are fortunate that we still have the heavy duty trailer we used to bring the logs back from Colorado.  It holds 3+ tons of rock at a time plus some in the bed of the truck.  In case you're wondering, yes, 3 tons is a lot of rock to pick up twice and move.  It wasn't quite as bad as we thought it would be though.  I think we have built up enough muscles over the last several months that we're getting conditioned to the work.  Thank goodness for that!

Jeremy with the loaded trailer South of town

These are the 2 piles of rock AFTER we pulled out the first load

The finished retaining wall planted with sweet potatoes

The rock sorted into piles by size and stacked close to the future garden shed

As you can probably tell in the last picture, we finished unloading at close to 9:00 and it was getting dark.  We're quickly losing daylight to the shorter days.  The phrase "losing daylight" has never seemed quite so powerful as it does now.  If we don't take full advantage of the daylight we have, we won't have a prayer of getting this foundation done before freezing weather.  The rush continues!