Beginnings

I decided our yard needed some changes and I decided the smoker that Phillip built an few years ago was no longer needed. He said it never worked correctly anyway. So I started stealing the cement blocks and using them for another project. Sam was able to help me finish lining out the next project for the cement blocks -- construction of a raised bed in the greenhouse. The picture above is the smoker being taken apart. The picture below is the bed starting to be assembled in the greenhouse.

The outside edge is complete and the interior is being filled up with grass clippings, clipped brances, and other yard debris as if it were a compost pile. I am in hopes of being able to create a good growing medium before next fall so we might be able to grow some easy vegetables throughout the winter.

The project is going very slowly as Sam has moved out of the state looking for work and growing up. My resources for help have been slashed and I am going to continue doing it myself. It does not go very fast but I have hopes I will become stronger as I work through my ideas.

I would like to share a poem I ran across awhile back that I feel indicates some of my feelings. The poem was written Audrey Hepburn one time when she was asked to give some of her "beauty tips" The poem was later read at her funeral.

For attractive lips,

speak words of kindness.

For lovely eyes,

seek out the good in people.

For a slim figure,

share your food with the hungry.

For beautiful hair, let a child run his/her fingers through it once a day.

For poise,

walk with the knowledge that you never walk alone.

People, even more than things,

have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed;

never throw out anyone.

Remember,

if you ever need a helping hand,

you will find one at the end of each of your arms.

As you grow older,

you will discover that you have two hands;

one for helping yourself,

and the other for helping others.