Testing

This week I am coordinating state testing for a local homeschool group. That keeps me busy until about noon so the boys hauled out the boat without me.  It was still windy but it needed to be done. 

They did not need me this afternoon so I worked in the garden.  Over the past couple of years I have been trying to build fencing for my rows that will keep the ducks out, keep the dirt in, accommodate u-pickers and withstand the rototiller. I don't like traditional bottomless boxes - they harbor slugs, disease and weeds.  Some fencing has too large of holes and the ducks reach through too far, chicken wire is wimpy, our soil is very rocky so it's hard to drive in fence posts, ducks jump up on top of floating row cover...the problems are endless.  I think I finally have a design that will work, so that is what I worked on today.
 Rebar posts, 2x4 rails and chicken wire fencing.  I had to quit for the night to make dinner, but it's almost done.

I hope it works.