But it sure is fun and rewarding. It's pretty great to see a physical project come together over a long period of time. This year, thanks to the graciousness of my father-in-law Peter, we're growing a vegetable garden for the whole family in his backyard. Here is how it looked back in August.

Just an idea. After arriving back from our 5 month inspirational journey, we wanted to get to work. So, we set to work mapping out the site, checking the light at various times of day. And we made a map in a sketchbook. That evolved into this.

The first half of the garden just after we spent an entire day uprooting and turning the carpet grass. It took another couple of days to complete the shape it is today. And then we seeded the soil with cover crop for the winter and let it lay fallow through the winter.

Back in October, cover crop just poking up, about to get buried by winter.

Winter came and gone and seemed to drag on forever and then Spring spring and we set out to build a garden. I arrived to lush cover crop and set to work on setting the fence from tree limbs we'd prined from the yard back in August.

It took me three days and three visits to turn it into this.

And then Tracie and I made it into what it will evolve from here on. This is getting exciting.

Excitement in slow motion. Picture it. Now take a walk through the progression, at various stages and locales.