Summer Survey - Tools

I like the idea of spending a generous amount of time planning landscape improvement projects. A cool weather system has been moving through tempting me to drag out a bunch of tools to do something. But my original plan is to do maintenance through the mid summer until such time that I step outside and know that cool weather is here. Then I will mobilize on the projects I am now defining and lining up.

Mobilization is a condition of readiness to perform any sort of landscape construction. The area by the compost plant is the base of operations. Some of the tools will need regular sharpening and other maintenance so this means I will have to set up support stations. Part of this stage of the plan is to muster the tools into a state of readiness.

I will make every effort to create detailed documentation of each project from the study and planning stage through the construction phase and the final result. After the work is done I will complete a final survey of the whole property with the improvements in an orderly brief.

I get a reward to struggle for a long time with some element in the garden, then see it come around and begin to conform to my will. I remember the bleak, depressive landscape. I love the fight to re-claim the ground for the greater good. I love the enlightenment nature gives. Tools and enlightenment go together.