Saturday afternoon Dirty Feet and I unloaded all the cinderblocks then took off to the City of Denton dump grounds for MORE dyno dirt (the old man that runs the booth is starting to recognize us).
Going to get Dyno Dirt is always fun until you get home and the shoveling starts. Luckily we had help shoveling again, my best friend's husband came by to get all sweaty and filthy with us. He and I emptied out the first truck load while Dirty Feet started digging out roots along the North fenceline where we had decided to put the second raised bed. 
His root digging got interupted because the bestie's husband and I had the truck cleaned out in record time and the three of us had just enough time to make a mad dash back up to Dyno Dirt for another load before they closed at 3. Here is a video so you can see how the dirt is loaded :)We returned from our excursion and got back to work on unloading yet another bed of rich, wonderful Dyno Lite Blend. Midway through Arab the Tree Climber came to lend another helping hand.
We unloaded all of the second load onto a tarp, removed all the giant roots, and got EVEN MORE of those darn Irises pulled up then all of us got to work moving rocks to the other side of the yard for our (slightly) raised melon bed. Under the rocks we found some really beautiful spiders (the pictures don't even do them justice). They were almost the color of merlot with white spots. We left the egg sacs and mommy spiders alone so they could help with pest control this spring. 
We had to call Saturday an early day for gardening due to our evening plans but in summary: we have a fully lined (but not yet filled) melon bed, the cinderblocks are almost in place for the second raised bed, and two cubic yards of dirt are sitting in the back yard waiting to go in both of the beds. We wouldn't be nearly as efficient without our stinky help, Arab the Tree Climber and the Bestie's hubby.... who has yet to create his stinky farmer name. Great work boys! 
Except for having to make two trips, it took almost no time with those boys hard at work. While they did the tough stuff I pulled up daffodils from the foxglove bed to transplant them into their very own pot. Bleeding Hearts are going to go where the daffodils were. We also added an additional raised bed onto the end of the big one for onions and potatoes because we ended up with extra dirt and blocks. 
Arab and I had been talking about putting CDs in the trees to help keep the birds away for almost a year and figured while we were out working we'd go ahead and get it done. Dirty Feet and I sent him up the tree armed with CDs and pruners.
We had dinner then put all the veggie seedlings and the onions into the newly filled bed. Dirty Feet got the peppers started in the peat pods while I ordered our new bees. May 17th I'll be picking up 3 lbs of Russian honey bees with a marked queen from a very freaked out post office. Until next weekends adventures....
