I officially called my museum project finished today. It really has been finished since August, but I kept adding more so I never called it done until now.
For graduation, it is required that you must do a job shadow or community service. I didn’t know any pilots so I wasn’t going to do a job shadow. I am a member of Air Heritage Inc. which is an aviation museum and restoration group and I thought what better way than to help out the museum by redoing their entire landscaping as it was in really poor condition. So in March I brought it up at the board meeting and they all liked the idea, so I began drawing up plans. After starting at a $3000 project, I was able to shed it down to "$1000" and they gave me the go-ahead in May.
I must say, I’m very proud of it. It amazes me how much of a difference it really is from the before and finished project.
Timeline:
March- Project brought up at members/board meeting
April- original beds cleaned out from past year
May- Project Approved, Started taking bulbs out of old beds
June- Officially began building new bed walls
* Bed one (started 6-12, finished 6-17)
* Bed three (complete all on 6-23-10)
July- continued building walls, took out remaining plants, filled beds with dirt, started planting
* Bed two (completed all on 7-1-10)
* picked up plants and started planting them (7-28-10)
* finished planting the plants
August-mulched all beds, finished off beds 1-3, started on bed four
* mulched all beds (8-2-10)
* added river rocks (8-28-10)
* started bed four with extra brick (8-29-10)
September-finished bed 4, planted fall plants
* finished bed four, got mums ( 9-25-10) (smashed my finger too)
* planted half of the mums (9-26-10)
October- planted last few mums, cleaned up
* finished planting last few mums (8-2-10)
* cleaned up (8-3-10)
Total hours worked for project: 81 (only needed 50-60hrs)
The Plan
The Brick (ended up getting another half pallet or so)
Before
Beds 1-3 in march
Beds 1-3 in april/may
Bed 4
