Weekly Blog 2

 Hank McCabe

Senior Project

This week, we changed it up a little bit and started with some landscaping. We did a lot of weeding in the flower beds around the property and then put down fresh mulch when we were done with that. We also raked up dead leaves and moved them into the woods and off of the grass. 

My favorite part of the workweek was working on the shed in front of the neighbor's house because Morgan helps him out too. The shed started out looking pretty bad, with a bunch of prickly weeds growing around it. We dug all around the shed, making a big circle of dirt. We had to haul heavy wheel barrels full of dirt and weeds into the woods and dump them. After that, we took the truck and filled it up with the rocks we picked from the field at the farm last week. We had to make three or four trips because we needed so many rocks. After we made the rock wall, we took flat sheetrock and made a path for the door of the shed. Lastly, Moran came over with a trailer full of mulch and we spread it inside the wall of the shed. 

When we were finished, the shed looked so much better than it did when we started. Seeing something that we worked really hard for and that took up a lot of our time to come together was very satisfying. Getting to see the progress with our own two eyes was really cool and made the work seem more meaningful and worth our time.

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