Day 6

We are now at the halfway point of our stay here at Chaumont Sur Loire. We slept in this morning and arrived to the plot around 8:30. Unfortunately the rain also decided to arrive at 8:30. The cold, wet air significantly impacts our turf cutting production. The material gets stiff and our chalk lines dissapear. We decided to take cover inside the large berm for about a half hour and wait for the rain to pass. Once the  rain began to let up we proceeded to finalize framing the little berm. We experienced moments of sun and rain off and on all morning. 

Around 11:30 Nataile, Katie and I headed down the hill to the village to scrounge up some lunch supplies. We found a bakery and purchased quiche, a baguette, and crossiants for tomorrow breakfast. Further down the street we found a butcher and were able to buy some hard sausage. Up the hill we went with supplies in hand. Luckily we finished making "the break room" yesterday (the bench) and we were able to eat during a moment of sun.

After lunch we secured the ramps of the large berm and officially applied the turf. We also worked on finalizing the grid for the turf quilt on the ground plane. Yesterday we did a mockup and today we had to get more serious with proper dimensions. Tomorrow we may start officially seaming together the turf quilt. Today we also cut turf for the first side slope. During our mockup we discovered that it will work best to fully wrap the front side slopes in turf before permanently securing the pieces to the framing. Lots of little tricky things to think about and account for. Every piece of the garden has now been started, it's now a matter of finishing up loose ends, and hoping for clear skies.

Progress update: ground plane grid re-established and first test of turf covering on side slopes.