Bamboo planting

Yesterday we bought US$250 of bamboo. More details coming - and Shirley's posted a little about it. So far today:
8am - Enjoying coffee out on the lanai. Already 80F and a little humid. Gonna be a lot of sweat flowing today.
9am - Ben's home for the summer, so we had a family breakfast (out on the lanai, of course). That ceiling fan Ben and I installed out there a couple of months ago is working quite nicely!
10am - Ben's off to work and Shirley and I are off to Lowe's for compost and various other supplies for the day. Getting warmer outside. Hydrate, hydrate, hydrate.
...more to come...pics posted later...got some digging to do today - about 60 feet long by 2 feet wide by a foot or two deep and lots of compost to fork in and then plant the bamboo and make it happy.
(later)
12:30pm - Back from Lowe's. We've got 400 pounds of cow manure/compost in the back of the car, som epotting soil for some other plants, and a wheelbarrow. Stopped at one of the many road side fruit stands and bought a bunch of limes for the beer that will be consumed later ...and grabbed a couple of shrubs with awesome yellow flowers - looks sort of like hibicus, but it's not. So for now we're calling them "Seffner Wonders" (we live in Seffner, just east of Tampa). Now time to eat a banana, guzzle some water, and start the real work.
9:20pm - Quit working at about 6pm, took a quick shower and swim, and pretty much passed out on the bed for about an hour. My poor body may not be very happy with me in the morning :-)
Pics with more details posted on Flickr.