That's right, today I embarked on what is most certainly the dream of almost every young child (it was for me anyways)... digging a massive hole. Peter started digging a drainage ditch in one of his fields and discovered that the soil about 1.5ft down was a sort of sandy eroded granite. This was good news for him because he'd been hoping to find some way of making tiles and bricks from a local material, and this would be perfect. With 4 parts soil, 1 part cement and a little water he can make an attractive and serviceable tile, probably for flooring, and who knows what else.
This is where I come in, I get to mine from the quarry! The whole pictured was about half dug by Peter and half dug by me today. He said he dug another drainage ditch that was up to his shoulder, which would just be awesome, but right now it's up to my knee, so I have a lot of work to do. Fortunately, the weather has been absolutely fantastic for the very end of October, sunny and damn close to hot 3 days and counting.
I've also uploaded a ton of photos from the last farm I was at, la Vesvre. This [LINK] should take you there.
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