I've laid the foundations for the garden walls. It took me two days, on and off, and multiple trips to go and get more of the "cement & sand" mix.
Seems like a relatively easy task: dig trench; mix concrete; put concrete in trench. Digging the trenches was bad enough, but fairly straight-forward you'd think. Mixing the concrete was just tedious and hard work - I've never liked physical work. And putting the concrete in the trench was fall-over easy.
Once the concrete had had a day to set, I started laying out the bricks, to see how the walls were going to line up. Hmm. These walls, low as they will be, need piers (that's a technical, wall-building, term), piers supported by concrete foundations. But I didn't know that a week ago, when I was digging the trenches.
Oh well, while I'm waiting for the concrete to set properly, I thought I'd get on with the path. For some reason that I just do not understand, it turns out that I've managed to get the last section level. This is quite some feat. I have no idea what I am doing, except that the path has to go from here to there. To actually get part of it level is astonishing. I must be very careful in case I get big-headed about it.
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