Orion?

The sun was out again so I was able to wash my other bedsheet as well as get a lot of work done on my garden. I finished my swales so the garden is now surrounded by a moat, I mean water control system. One seedbed is also dug and I used the double-dig method we were shown during training; the average depth of worked soil is just more than a Nalgene. I’m waiting to plant the seeds until I can erect a chicken barrier (aka fence) since they keep wandering through and like to lay down in the soil I’ve already worked. I don’t want them digging up or eating my seeds.

Two girls from the hostel came by today to learn some Form 4 chemistry. I had told them I could teach them a little about soil chemistry because some of the topics are covered in the NYS Earth Science Curriculum. I tried to explain the 3 basic types of rocks (ig, met, & sed) and some other things. For some concepts, like the relationship between soil properties and infiltration orate, I used the garden to explain (in this case pouring water on the dug seedbed and the packed path between).

Kitty caught another mouse today and I’m thinking of naming him Orion after the hunter in Greek mythology. I would name him after a cobra because he seems to only be able to hunt things that are moving but I don’t know any names of cobras.