Loving the re-designed flower bed, we decided to use the same look on another flower bed in the upper lawn area. It is right next to our back door and houses our air conditioning unit. The previous owners had planted some beautiful bushes but they were unruly looking, no matter how much trimming we did…
Author: JP
Wagging Tails
Throwing it back to a little earlier this year, I thought I would share one of the projects I worked on in our beautiful shop. I didn’t take a lot of photos as this was more of an experiment and I didn’t think the first draft would actually turn out as well as it did…lesson…
Rockin’ it
Just a quick post today about the progress on the rock-filling of our top garden. I went and picked up another 100′ roll of landscaping fabric to finish off the few areas that we missed when we ran short on our other roll. I am sure that this roll won’t last long either, especially if…
Little Shop of Dreams
When we first purchased our house, we were not originally looking for a place that had a shop. I only required a garage at the time. I am sure happy that we ended up with a detached shop to go along with the house we love. I have always liked to build and create things,…
Can you dig it?
Jiggered at how well the walls went together, we decided to start filling and levelling it as best we could. A few years ago, when this project first began, we had all of our junipers torn out. As part of the clean-up, the company we hired made the slope nice and even and left a…
Fancy Stacks Part 2
Just as we were getting the hang of building walls with wire and rocks, we decided to switch gears and try our hand at another style of wall. We have spent so much time tiering our back yard that we have let some of the already established gardens get a little out of control. Going…
‘Tis the Season!
Jolly greetings to everyone this holiday season. We hope you all had enjoyable holidays, in whatever form they may have come. We love this time of year, spent with family and friends, enjoying warm fires in our wood stove, and cuddling up with our dogs for quiet movie nights. We are looking forward to the…
Fall Procrastination
As usual, I have written that we are going to do something in this blog, and we have not. The new wall has sat empty since we put the wire up. Instead, we have been busy doing other things both in our yard and in our shop. A few weeks ago we started getting some…
Wired x2
Jumping, rolling, digging and chewing are Basil’s favourite things to do in the back yard. In the last month we have had our hands full with this funny little girl, but she is proving to be the perfect fit with our family. Luckily the growing season is over, or we would have much bigger problems…
Tiering ourselves out
Jocosely playing on the word tiered versus tired, we are having fun with our yard. With our first wall complete, we have been excited to start the next one., and we are not letting anything else delay us any further…including adding a new puppy to our family! I’ll get to that later in the post….
JK Building The Dream 