Hello Everyone!
Close enough to being on time, Side quests galore, An earthen bridge, A small farm pond & Bob Backwards is missed!
Alright I am running about an hour behind schedule with my writing routine which yup is totally fine with me. Considering the long day that I have had and the handful of tasks that I have left to do are going to burn p almost the rest of the daylight time... I dunno how much to even try spelling out here!
Early in the day I decided that I had finally had it with hiking through the entirety of the big gulch between my camps... which initiated a very long series of events and the inevitable side quests. My simple goal was to make a very tiny farm pond and then use all the clay and dirt from it to fix my gulch problem in regards to walking.
For the most part I made a big square hole in the ground and as I was digging like crazy just to get down a few feet into the clay bed. The hole itself is a square that is roughly four feet on each side and overall (down in the gulch) it is about fifty-six inches below grade which is the level of the path that leads downhill to the gulch.
By the end of the day I could easily walk on either of the large berms that I created beside each other and I only have eight more inches to fill in the berm on the left with the berm on the right. Once I get to that point I will have quite the large earthen bridge spanning the gulch and I can either leave it as is or keep building it higher so that it creates a smooth transition.
Since I am unsure how the farm pond itself will come out and where the water will pool I decided to leave myself enough room at each end of the earthen bridge to dig trenches if they are needed. The way that everything is setup currently none of the water in the pond would be relying on the berms to be held back but rather the ground itself and even how I dug it out is done so to aid in that.
Not that I am truly worried about having much water in the pond at this point because unless it comes bubbling up out of the ground there I do not have extra water to fill it with. I am at the point now with the frigging that it has really slowed down (due to density of the clay and soil) and I am going to have to begin using the chisel on the rock bar to etch away at it,
On a dfferenet note I am still pretty bummed about the passing of Bob Backwards so suddenly and both the other chickens have been sitting by his pen looking forlornly at it. Even Good Girl seems to miss his presence and honestly I do too because on top of everything else likable about him... he made for quite the night watchman.
Well I am fading out here on the writing and need to go bang out those other tasks. I hope that everyone is doing well. Ta ta for now.
