Greetings! Welcome to #WeekendCoffeeShare, thank you for meeting me on this Saturday. Let’s take this chat inside. According to the weather app on my phone, it looks like it might rain today.

According to mom, I laid 104 bricks this week. From upstairs, it certainly doesn’t look too bad. It even looks like I’ve done a decent job. Not according to mom. After she complained about my bricks being uneven, her words went to my head and I ended lifting most of the bricks by the new pollinator patch (the square bed by the fence) last night and will be redoing them today.

When I was an engineering student, I remember vividly about a story one of the instructors told us on the first day of the class. It’s a story about a teacher ordering a square-shaped piece of plastic measuring 1.000-by-1.000 inches and it costed her $1000 when it should’ve costed her $1 because of the zeros behind the decimal point.

Having laid bricks all week, I finally realized why those zeros made such difference. According to the tag at the store, the 16 inches bricks actually measured 15.6 inches. When I measured it with a ruler, I thought there was something wrong with me or the ruler. Like I said, those zeros behind the decimal matter because some of the bricks were longer or shorter than others, making it difficult to laid sometimes.

I ended up needing to fill the bigger gaps with the pile of the excavated soil sitting in the new garden bed. Not a bad way to reuse this crappy clay soil and I have no doubt once enough water seeps through, it will act like cement between the bricks.

You know what’s funny? From the top, I feel like I’m half-way complete with this project but in reality, I’m only about a-quarter complete though I imagine it should move quicker once I leveled the ground and construct 2 more garden beds.

If we were having coffee, I would tell you mom gave me a deadline – finish as much I can by Monday and wait until we return from Japan to finish the rest. She doesn’t want me to go to Japan with sore muscles but the thing is, my muscles aren’t sore right now, though I imagine they will be once I sit on a plane for 11 hours.

Anyway, I guess I have my work cut out for me. Better get to it.

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