Well, it was already raining when I got up, so I guess the garden boxes will get leveled when they get leveled. Not gonna take much. Just a jack and some shims under the supports. Not something I relish doing in the rain, though. I should have used 2x6's for the frame I built for it, but really didn't consider how heavy a cubic meter of dirt is, especially WET dirt. I saw them sag with the first bucketload, so I put some little quick fix stubby posts between the brick pillars. They've sunk into the soil a bit, so time to shim them up. The boxes hold about 3 inches of water under a riser in the bottom, and have weep holes just above that so that the dirt is always touching water (assuming it has rained in the past 2 months), but excess water is drained off so that the plants don't drown. Pretty nifty design, but I've never seen anything animal or vegetable that survives being in a plastic container in Alabama heat. We're still hitting the 90's with 50%+ humidity. They're great in the winter, though. I'm hoping all our broccoli and sprouts are done before we get a really hard freeze. That doesn't normally happen until January.
So, I went out to the chicken pen and moved the feed and water inside the coop so the girls wouldn't have to go outside in the rain to eat (and the feed wouldn't get soggy), and relegated myself to a day inside as well. I don't like putting the feeder and waterer inside because the chooks like to get on top of them and poop all over them. Silly birds. I think I'll go check my newly buried drain from the parking spots and see if the popup is working properly. I've never melted in the rain, but much like a cat, I'm not fond of getting wet unless it's my choice to get wet.
No tractoring today. I was going to grease the FEL because I've hammered it pretty hard the past two weeks helping my neighbor and doing my own work. Need to bring in the grapple and grease it too. First order of business when this rain is outta here.
