At last

The rain stopped and we had an awesome day, actually. So time to get outside and finish up clearing away the rest of the leaves that have been standing in small heaps for days and being rained on. It took the whole afternoon but the effort was well worth it because now I can move onto other things.

All the leaves have now been cleared – all that I’m intending to clear anyway – and here’s the last barrowload before I took it and emptied it out in the trees.

I’m so pleased to at last see grass and the top of my land looking reasonably clear again.

Here’s the heap of leaves where I dumped them in the trees. It’s bigger than it looks – well over 100 barrowloads – because beforehand there was a hollow that has now been filled. And not only filled, because in the process a lot of leaves have been trampled down as I’ve walked over them to empty out the barrow.

My next job is to make the first two of the three gates that are needed in the lower three sides of the fence. I’ll have to leave the third until its posts have been put in place just in case they are not parallel and the gate’s dimensions have to be varied accordingly.

But first I think that tomorrow I’ll go to Brico Depot and buy some wood to make some pegs out of because I want to bang six into the ground where I estimate the corners of my house will be. The builder will inevitably remove them when they start work but I’d like to visualise beforehand where the house will actually be standing and get a feel for its dimensions. Up to now, everything has just been on a computer screen or paper and it would be nice to at last see something actually on the ground 😉