Well, a lightning visit from Uncle Brad sort of changed our rhythm for a little while, in a good way, of course. It is always nice to be taken out to eat at the Hana Hou by your benefactor, after all.
We also had a chance to review the status of various aspects of the project, face to face, which is of course a bit more susbstantial than email or phone communications...
The on ground stuff that has been happening lately includes another replacement starter for the aerostar, and the continuing intransience of the 8N's steering wheel, which is the first thing that has to be removed in order for us to replace the bearings in the steering box...
We also planted the two Guadua amplexifolia (amplex meaning to wind around, or clasp), which will sort of connects the line all the way from the Oldhammi hedge behind the barn now, and the Monastery bamboo's, the brandisii and the Guadua "less thorny's" behind the dunny...
We also started potting on the eucalyptus deglupta seedlings. We have about 250+ in 4 inch pots so far. Probably we will have about 1000 or so this round. I did some sums last night, and figured that if we do do 1000, and pot them into 1 gallon plastic bags with the basic 50/50% cinder/compost mixture, with 1 cubic foot = 7.48 gallons, and there being 27 cubic feet in a cubic yard, well, we'll need about 5 yards of potting mix to do it. That would cost us about $200. So, 20cents a tree, not counting the cost of the four inch pots used so far, nor the labour, but still a pretty good price, when you consider that this nursery http://www.forestnursery.com/ doesn't even grow their deglupta's to that size, but would charge $5 a tree for a smiliar quantity of other species... Now, if we plant each tree into a hole twice the size of a 1 gallon pot, with that hole being mixed 50/50 with topsoil and a cinder/compost mix, well, I guess, that would cost another $200 near enough, and would push the price per tree up to 40cents each, of course, without any labor or costs associated with mulching, weed suppression and pruning. Still, while it isn't advisable to count your board feet before they are milled, that still seems like a winner, eh?
I guess we need to research a little bit about foresting delgupta's... What spacings, are they allelopathic to other forest trees, what trees and bamboo will grow well with them? What pruning regime if any is necessary?

We spread sawdust and newspaper in garden pathways, and picked up a couple more bags from Vanover cabinets. Still waiting for the motherload of fine dust to come out of his hopper...
More beets were planted in the old zinnia gallery and a new dome bed was planted up.