A stone cairn

What a great weekend. The first sneeze and it reminds me that the hay fever season is here. The flowers are bursting out of their buds, the bees are buzzing and gums trees are vomiting their seeds everywhere. It’s spring. I love this time of year – when the sunshine is warm, and the nights are cool. Actually, the nights are still freezing, and that is just the way I like it.

This weekend we were working in the garden, trying to establish some lawn with the hope that we would be able to keep the dust down this year. We got the area leveled off and as I started to sprinkle it with the hose – the water just ran off. It was so dry, almost like bulldust, and the water just ran off and couldn’t be absorbed into the ground. Looks like this is going to be harder than I thought.

We build a stone cairn. We had all of these left over rocks and wanted to find something useful to do with them. We especially wanted to move them before it gets too hot and a slithery reptile decides it is a nice place to set up digs. So we moved the huge pile of rocks (well Jim moved them mostly) and I placed them down, one after the other, to form a wiggly garden bed edge. It looks a bit like the slithery reptile I was trying to avoid. But what to do with the leftovers? We had a few options, then decided on building a stone cairn, like the explorers did in the outback. I haven’t built a stone cairn before and it is harder than it looks. Those explorers must have had a lot of time on their hands, a sense of determination and persistence, and a sense of humor. I don’t have much of any of these, and soon got frustrated. But Jim kept going until the job was done and created an awesome stone cairn. Not sure what it symbolizes yet, but once we recover we will come up with a really cool story to explain it all.

Hooroo

Helen