The pile before we started...
Found some treats for the chooks...
The end result. :)Earlier this year there was some cutting down of Pepperina trees at the school. I happen to be at the pub for a very, very rare drink and the people that were taking the wood chips away. They asked if I knew anyone that would want the truck load of wood chips or they would be forced to pay to dump it at the local dump...
Well off course I took them to my place :) They dumped the truckload as the school didn't want it. All the better for me. :) We have let it sit and rot, let the chooks comb through it for many months now so decided to use the bark not just for our gardens and pots but also to make a bit of a driveway so that we could park our cars up closer to the house. This way even when it has rained we won't get stuck in the black soil which is so muddy. Very happy with the end result. Dry and clean under foot and still have half a pile to go.
The best thing of all though was that we did it as a family. We got Timothy off the computer and out into the cold windy day, which he didn't really appreciate but we really wanted to do it together... Joshua, as usual, put his whole into it and did a fantastic job helping... It was a great achievement in the end even though it didn't take very long at all...
Very good idea you had there Russell. :)
Cheers Damaris
Well off course I took them to my place :) They dumped the truckload as the school didn't want it. All the better for me. :) We have let it sit and rot, let the chooks comb through it for many months now so decided to use the bark not just for our gardens and pots but also to make a bit of a driveway so that we could park our cars up closer to the house. This way even when it has rained we won't get stuck in the black soil which is so muddy. Very happy with the end result. Dry and clean under foot and still have half a pile to go.
The best thing of all though was that we did it as a family. We got Timothy off the computer and out into the cold windy day, which he didn't really appreciate but we really wanted to do it together... Joshua, as usual, put his whole into it and did a fantastic job helping... It was a great achievement in the end even though it didn't take very long at all...
Very good idea you had there Russell. :)
Cheers Damaris
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