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Who me?
Just finished making lunch at 15:27. Such an anomaly!
But my lord it's only because I have been digging, raking, shovelling and preparing my backyard and front to make a garden.
The contractor I had hired had actually told me that what I really needed was a JCB and a big compacting machine to flatten and level the land to go ahead with any gardening and the rates he mentioned for this purpose were enough that I could buy a house, so I let the man be and decided that what's needed can be done by the two people who need a garden or at least a backyard desperately.
Whatever little masonry work etc that will be needed I will get someone and also have someone help with the landscaping and perhaps going about in bits and pieces is better than the earlier proposition.
And so I have begun the initial phase of cleaning and tilling the shitty soil in the backyard that killed my rosemary and basil that I'd planted in it.

Yes that's a sad story for another time but I am going to get a better layer of soil to plant stuff, and also I've decided to scatter wood chips because making a lawn here is pointless since all the trees make far too much shadow to actually sustain any grass.
So!
The soil is turned, a lot of debris and filth is pulled out and now I wait for a gardener I'd called to suggest and help with whatever can be done.

The awning for backyard is now in place and actually it looks decent enough to put a couple chairs, but the issue with this place is that the house is on a slope and whenever it rains, the water drains down and collects on the porch area.
This is such a helpless issue that indeed the only option is to excavate the land on top and make it at the same level, creating a slope from the house towards backyard..but again, it ain't my fight to fight and so I shall diplomatically circumvent the issue with smaller, more simpler albeit less efficient solutions.

I will soon buy some concrete, some sand and bricks and begin the levelling procedure in places I am going to make my own.

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Hope was found at 3 in the morning last night, playing with another cat in a completely different area of this compound.
I cannot imagine how she got there.