It was a little harder to put up than the upper portion of the fence, mostly because we wanted it to sink down 6 inches and then jut out, so we had to sort of finesse it into place. Also, stapling at that angle is pretty tough. Well, at least I assume it is, Matt did all the stapling cause my tiny little hands can't handle the pressure. My job was to stretch the chicken wire tight so that we can iron out the kinks later. We work pretty well as a team :)
Then, we dug out the second bed. Now if you saw the first bed post, you know we are going for the woody bed garden style. The problem is that we ran out of wood from our old apple tree after the first bed. So, we've been watching Craigslist and thankfully scored some free willow wood just in the nick of time this weekend. Here it is in the truck.
And here it is in the bed. Sort of like a big puzzle really.
That was about where we ended today because, well, Wisconsin hasn't gotten the memo that it is spring and instead of being 75 and sunny, it was 60 and drizzling. Cold wet drizzle plus a pile of fresh compost plus a pile of freshly dug soil equals, that's right, multi-colored mud.
I felt a little like Dennis the Menace because we left muddy trails wherever we went. The mud combined with the cold meant we didn't get as far as we had planned, but we still got a lot done. We even made it to Menards to get the boards to go across the middle and top of the fence.
Even Leroy felt the need to snuggle down.
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