The crew was up and going around 8 am on this sunny but windy morning. We had rock piles to finish and water flow to contour. We had to make sure that all our layered waterfall rocks that had taken so much effort to balance on our rock stacks actually got the water flow as…
Monday morning began with the crew somewhat dispersed. P and Y took care of some errands and did not get to the garden project until about after lunch. D and P2, however, were busy right from the get go. First, they went to Bylands to pick up our new trees that were awaiting a pick…
We started our Sunday morning early since it was going to be another hot day. We planned to finish up the lower pond area. We cut out the liner around the skimmer and began to trim back both the under-lay and liner around the lower pond area. We made a few more trips down to…
The day greeted us in a true Kelowna summer fashion with a warm morning that got progressively warmer by the minute! D, P and Y decided to work on the lower pond waterfall and wrap up the rock frame that would channel the stream over the spill rocks. We also needed to tape down some…
As is often the case following a big work day, we had a slower morning. Given K was planning to go back home, the group focused their time on getting the materials that K would take home to build the bridge with T’s help. K, and P discussed the finer details of how we wanted…
The work day began with D looking for the skimmer/pump manual in a frenzy. Our experts just wanted to consult the official instructions. Meanwhile, over by the upper pond, P contemplated the meaning of life, and whether it’s better to lower the level of the spillway so that we need to hide less of the…
It was another crisp summer morning here at West Kelowna, but that didn’t stop our crew from getting started on the task they had been looking forward to for days – getting the pond liners in! Before we started with the liners and under lays, we wanted to solidify how the upper pond’s waterfall rocks…
The morning began with rain and chilly weather. P and Y deemed it a rest day. We were planning to take a rest day for our blog until we heard grumbling from some of the crew members (namely D and K), so we were compelled to put out a brief note. While P labored on…
Our crew got to work around 7:30-8 after battling some Monday morning blues. The main event of the day was set to be getting and installing pond liners on both our ponds and stacking all kinds of rocks around them. While the Kelowna specialty store opened at 7, we gave them an hour to settle…
The builders were greeted in the morning by some chilly weather. Whatever happened to the famous Kelowna summer? Nonetheless, our builders marched on, led this breezy day by K, who was at the site, all decked up in his toolbelt and paraphernalia at 7, while the rest of us struggled out of our beds to…
It was the start of the weekend and we planned to get a lot done the next couple days. We started around 9 am by capturing the measurements to assess whether our pump could handle the waterfalls we were envisioning in our two ponds, and whether the pipe we had bought would fit the trench…
It’s hard to believe that we’ve been building this garden for a week now! P2 wasn’t going to join us today, so it was just D, P and Y. We got an even later start around 8:45. Unbeknownst to Y, D and P had discussed a change in the plans around the lower pool where…
The day started a little later at 8 am today. The crew kicked off with their usual stand-up. Given P had a lot of meetings and could spend less than an hour this morning, we decided to focus on finishing up the grass removal as well as lowering the step down from the patio to…
We awoke to a beautiful day with some visitors showing up bright and early outside our kitchen window and hanging around for a couple hours underneath the shady canopy. The day’s work began with a stand-up to discuss the lower pond and how to shape it now that it was more circular thanks to erosion…
We had another early 7 am start. Though even so early on, the day looked like it would be a hot one. We started the day with another stand up session, this time focused on fine-tuning the upper pond, which looked like it was almost there, though needed some more leveling of the rock shelf…
We had P2 join us for a 7 am start today. With four builders on the ground, we planned to tackle both the ponds as well as the walking path. The air had a slight chill to it and the sky was mostly overcast, which suited us just fine for the digging operations. As P2…
Fuelled by rhubarb and strawberry muffins courtesy of mama E, we kicked off Day 2 early on a bright Sunday morning at 7:30! P and D started by digging out the cherry tree stump and surrounding roots from in the lower pond area. Then we started digging the outlines of the upper and lower pond,…
We began our first full day at Bosky Acre with a full tour of the property by taking in the earthy aroma of the herbs in the outdoor patio, dreaming up the tastes of all the delicious fruits that the newly planted fruit trees will bear and feasting on the heady scent of the brilliantly…