The Great Wall of Hawkins

Here is the way the site looked for a long time:

Here is the wall two-thirds done:

Here is the final product:

We are glad it is done.

Wall and garden

We finally hired some people to finish our stone wall. It is a long story, and I've only bored a few people with it so far.

 We also have been enjoying the garden with the wonderful garden boxes.

On Sunday a couple stopped by and asked to see our garden boxes since she is a "Square Foot" gardening instructor.

 She even took pictures of them.

So I decided I should take some pictures as well.

  I think planting the flowers in the boxes helps make them look nicer.

Some of the plants are working, and others aren't growing that well. The 30-degree temperature swings in one day probably don't help it.

Copper Mine

I took the children to see the Kennecott Copper Mine in Bingham Canyon (now owned by Rio Tinto) this week. It was huge.

 

Here is a partial view of part of the mine. The tiny dots on the road are the extremely large mining dump trucks--the ones you see in the books of large vehicles.

 The children were impressed with the copper sheet, the final product.

 Did I say it was large? Everything, except the children, was huge.