Dear Liza,
Auntie Katie’s bookshop, Books with Pictures, is getting a new garden! This triangular patch of land just behind the store has been overgrown for years and is now planned as a space for meetings, music, or just sitting.
Last summer, some designers came and built a wonderfully wonky and stout gateway for the space.
A few weeks ago, a friend with a backhoe came and tore all the overgrown plants out. He came back and scraped six inches of rocky topsoil off.
And Sunday, the new topsoil got put into place. This isn’t the sort of work for a backhoe, however. This is delicate, manual labor. Fortunately, Auntie Katie has a lot of strong friends.
Grandpa Nelson, Auntie Bridgett and I walked down and met up with Douglas, Marion and Moss, Ken and Hillary, Chelsea and Katie to put the soil where it belongs. It was exhausting and took a lot of shovels, but working together is always fun, and the garden-to-be is one step closer to being fabulous.
Auntie Katie has injured her shoulder and wisely supervised rather than shoveled. She and Hillary are great bosses!
The plants will be delivered in a few weeks and there will be another work party! Hooray!
Love,
Grandma Judy
Dear Liza 