2023 Life Logs, Day 155: Ollie’s Soccer Game, Moving Dirt
Date: Sunday, June 4, 2023
Weather: Mix of Clouds, Some Sun, Misty Rain; High 53, Low 49 degrees F
Location: At Home in the Cottage, East Falmouth, MA
I drove with Heather and Ollie to Ollie’s 9 am soccer game in Dartmouth this morning. This was Ollie’s last game of the season. I got a couple of final season photos and Ollie can be identified by his jersey number, 18.
They didn’t win today, but the coach told them he was so proud of how much they have improved during this season. Ollie felt good about that. These kids missed a year and a half of playing due to Covid, so they had some catching up to do.
After I returned home, Heather came over to help me dig up and move garden soil from my raised beds here at the cottage to the raised beds at the new location. Each raised bed there is 4 feet by 4 feet and I filled each to 10 inches deep. An online calculator tells me I put about 14 cubic feet of organic garden soil in each bed. I bought 8 bags of organic garden soil today to top off the soil transferred from my gardens here at the cottage. Each bag I bought today was 1 cubic feet and the cost per bag was $12. I put 2 bags in each of the 4 beds. Not counting those 8 bags, I moved the equivalent of 12 one cubic foot bags for each of the 4 beds at the cost of $144 per bed. Doing that for 4 beds equals $576 worth of dirt! It was quite a process to get it dug up, loosened from roots, and transferred into the1 0 gallon felt bags that I could handle. The Baranowskis helped me with the first 7 bags and Heather helped me today with another 7 bags. I have lost track of how many I moved by myself. But let’s just say that it was a lot of damn dirt. And I sure am glad that is done. I’m hoping to get most things planted by the end of this week.
Jed flew to DC yesterday, helped his mother shut down her home there for the summer, and tomorrow they will drive here . . . hopefully in time for Jonah’s band concert tomorrow night. So, gardening and band concert on the calendar for tomorrow.
