If I didn't say it already, congrats on the great press, Shir!
meara, I totally thought you'd cut her loose when she invited you to the pill thing.
More sllllllooooooooowwwww progress on the raised beds today. My dad got started lifting the St. Augustine out of the place where one bed is going and using it to fill another place he lifted from. The rest of the parts arrived from the manufacturer and they gave us 2 extra pieces, which is better than the 2 pieces they shorted us last time.
Started building the 2nd bed up by myself carrying only one block of wood at a time and being very careful. I realized I'd been operating on the assumption that the 22" height was 3 boards high and had calculated our soil needs based on that. It turns out it's 4 boards high. So we should have done one more soil run yesterday. I don't want to bug the construction site again so I'm going to have to purchase more manure/compost. Which except for the added cost isn't a bad thing. This is good sandy soil but it's poor in organic materials.
I HOPE it's finished tomorrow. We need to find the right size drill bit and finish drilling a hole on a defective piece we received. Then I have to get my Dad to shovel the piled-high soil into the 2nd bed. I mix the manure in while that's happening. Then I can finally plant the plants that have been straining at their pots for 3 weeks now.