Raised Bed Building

This past Saturday, my dad and 2 sisters and I built 3 raised beds behind Oakbrook for the garden! When I say we built the raised beds, I mean mainly my dad did for safety reasons, but I still helped out of course. I mean, I tried to handle the machine that could potentially cut my whole hand off, but it wasn't going so smoothly, so I let the man with experience handle it. Around 12 noon, we all headed to Lowe's to get the supplies: 9 pieces of 6 by 8 feet of wood, nails, potting soil for when I start planting seeds in the classroom, the seeds themselves, and something organic that helps prevent weeds. Then, we headed to Oakbrook to begin our work. We finished our work around 3 pm after some frustration in the hot sun. I plan to start planting the seeds in the 4th grade classroom sometime next week. I asked the 4th graders to start bringing in emtpy gallon milk jugs to start the process. Every day or so I've been taking a volunteer from each 4th grade class to show them how to emtpy the compost so as to get them more involved as well as lessen my work load. Empyting it and cleaning it out/refilling it with water as well as doing the same process with the senior commons compost bin takes longer than one would think- about 25-30 minutes! Good thing I have 7th period free now or else I don't know what I would do. Anyways, of course I documented the raised bed-building process with my camera- I got some nice shots taken of myself pretending to be doing all the work- posing with the lethal nail-gun or whatever that thing is called. Driller? I don't know. Anyways, so that's it for now. Til next Friday!