The work continues

Three cubic yards of mulch, two of sand, and one of compost, is a lot of garden material!  The sand and compost have been put in the front vegetable bed, and in one of the back retaining wall beds.  The back bed is tilled, and the front bed nearly finished.  In a couple of months we will get soil tests.

Doesn't this look like lovely soil?

I have spread about two thirds of the mulch.  All of this is for the front yard.  Weeds be gone!

I have finished And West is West by Ron Childress.  I am not sure what to say about this book.  It is very well written, thought provoking and rather disturbing.   There are three main characters, Jessica, an Air Force drone pilot who is discharged for a security breach; Ethan, a Wall Street quant, who develops algorithms to allow his bank to trade currency based on world terrorism, in milliseconds;   Zoe, who, it turns out, is the connection between all the divergent threads.  I didn't particularly like any of the characters.  I found them all pretty self absorbed. Each make bad decisions with drastic results.  A troubling question (or maybe it is the true theme) raised by this book is, what is the result of lives spent engaged with technology, rather than people?