Hanging Gardens

2010 May 21 Hanging Gardens 223
Originally uploaded by Schreiber.Melissa

Hoisting up the plants. This was fortunately much less daunting of a task then it seemed in the planning stages. Like most of the things that went down last Friday- things just seemed to work out for us. No rain, when the forecast calls for 80% chance of afternoon showers ???

Rooftop Juliets

Rooftop Juliets
Originally uploaded by slange70

A rooftop performance by the Juliets for Single Barrel Detroit during the Hanging Gardens volunteer day.

5 Days

...to go before the Hanging Gardens go up on the Forest Arms.

To-do list:

Order Plants

Quote trolleys/bus for volunteer transport

Find a tent system in case of rain

Say some prayers that we don't get rain

Find out how volunteers need to book their time to get paid for the day

Eat more of yesterday's homemade rhubarb pie

Email volunteers with agenda for the day

Edit the press release for the project

Follow-up with Marvin, Model D's photographer

Meet with Scott and Lorenzo about creating a sign for the project and developing web content

Find out if we need permits for the event

Test out fastening system for pocket gardens with building owner, UCCA staff, Phil and Tadd

Sleep

Get feedback on planting strategy from Greening of Detroit, JJR, landscape designers at Woolly Pockets

See what Single Barrel Detroit has in mind for a film about the planting day

Make sure the Juliets have all they need for their performance

Find out whether the DSO will be performing

Play in my first soccer game of the new Detroit Futbol League

Finalize catering for the event

Make up some kits for volunteers (t-shirts?)

Take another walk under the giant trees in Lafayette Park

Sleep a little more

I wish we could adopt a small army for this week, but this is gonna be sweet.

(Forest Arms - Second & Forest)

Crunch Time

I've named my house and it's called the Ranch. I haven't had enough time yet to build the Ranch a fine deck, but that's because I've been on a pretty insane work kick lately.

That project I mentioned a few weeks back is called the Hanging Gardens. It's happening next Friday. Toby was right the second he heard about the idea. He said I should have come up with it months ago. Yes, at least months.

But we've pushed on thru and we're getting ready to have ourselves a real good time.

Here's the email we sent out yesterday:

50 volunteer spots filled up in 30 minutes. I think it's a new Team Detroit record. More details to come...