This week, the construction crew worked on adding framing to the bottom of the desk, where we will be mounting a lattice to hide the area under the deck. Here is the current state of the work. This is a picture from the walkway that goes under the deck to the basement door, looking north.

The open area on the right (east) side will be where there will be an access door so we will be able to store things under the deck (although it is not a dry space).

Here is a video of the process (I sped this up compared to most of the videos). This overlaps with the previous video I posted, because I wanted to get the whole process together in one video.

On Saturday, Daphne and I went to the site to put stakes into the ground in the area where we will be planting. Here is what the area behind the garage, between the silt barrier and the wetlands now looks like. Each of those stakes are four feet apart.

Daphne has updated were planting plan to include the grid that the stakes outline and the plan now looks like this (you can see the grid in the center of the plan).

With luck, this coming Wednesday a botanist will visit the site and write up a report for the Concord Natural Resources Commission basically stating that we did, in fact, plant four trees and they seem to still be alive. I think the report also indicates that we did a reasonable job at removing invasive plants.

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