Pointing and Round to its.

Crazy paving is all well and good, in fact it looks fantastic (when finished) however, before you can claim it to be any where close you have to "point up" between the stones.  In other words fill in the gaps.  It is one of those jobs you put off because it is a really tedious job.

But one well worth doing.

Doesn't it look smart!

 

 

I jokingly have a list of jobs that I label as.... "round to its".  

By this I mean jobs that need doing, but have to wait until such time as I can fit them in, say when I have nothing else to do, in truth this is a rare event, which means the "round to its" don't always get done as quickly as I would like.  Thankfully with the help I have been getting from my volunteer helpers I have gradually started to get round to more and more "round to its".  

One such job was the turning and mixing of the compost in our organic compost heap.




Surprisingly there is little smell to a compost heap if it is working right.  Which is kind of lucky, because I really don't think any of us would have been too happy if it had been smelly and horrid to work with. 

In the picture you can see three compost bins (made out of old pallets) The left hand side contained sifted soil that looks good but is lacking in the vegetable matter good fertile soil needs.  So we mixed it with the vegetable matter (compost) that was in the middle bin, alternating layers of soil and compost as we went.  With any luck in a couple of months I should have ultra rich soil that will grow vegetables by the bucketload. 

We also filled in the gaps between the stones in our newly built pig shelter.  (yes I know, it isn't much of a shelter without a roof or indeed proper floor, but before we put "it" on or "it" down we have to seal up any draughts or the pigs will not be happy)


Using our hands proved to be the most effective way of delivering the cement into the nooks and crannies.