Recently, we tested the soil and found it suitable for leveling the yard. We spread piles of soil, resulting in a more even ground, and removed an irrigation line for deck construction. Plans are underway for a 13′ x 16′ deck, complemented by a gazebo and flower beds, aiming for completion before summer heat.
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Dig, Dog, Dug
Our big project for this spring is putting in a pool. As mentioned before, we can’t handle the hotter and hotter summers, so we are going to combat it the way everyone else seems to…with a pool! It just a simple above-ground pool that we can setup in the yard. However, if you have been…
More Landscaping
Though we are definitely on the tail end of the landscaping to the backyard, there is still a bit to go before we get to just enjoy maintaining the yard. The terracing and building of rock walls was by far the biggest part of our landscaping adventure, but now we want to be able to…
Taking Gardening To The Next Level
With the rock wall being complete, we now have all new levels of gardens to utilize this summer. The only issue is that I got ahead of myself again and all the stuff that needs to be planted now is planned for the new beds. That’s ok though. After years of working on rock walls,…
Easter Weekend Project 3 – Yard Levelling & Path Building
Ok, so just to update you in case you haven’t been following along, Project 1 was doing a big yard cleanup and rake along with a yard waste dump run as well as a household waste dump run and Project 2 was completing another couple sections of the last of our rock walls. And here…
Easter Weekend Project 1 – Yard Clean Up
To kick off our Easter weekend, we decided to start getting the yard ready for our upcoming planting season. As mentioned previously, the snow snuck up on us in the fall, and then never went away, so we had a bunch of plants to pull. We started off with pulling all the plants from the…
Deja Vu
We are on the final stretch of building rock walls, and it is beginning to feel like deja vu…been here, done this, many, many, many times now. But, despite the fatigue with wanting to build rock walls there is still drive there to get them done because we LOVE the walls we have already finished…
And So It Begins Again…
…For the last time. Wall building season has begun once more, but this will hopefully be the last year that we are building walls. And by walls, I mean the rock walls where we are cementing posts, adding wire and filling with loads and loads of rocks. Don’t get me wrong, I love our walls,…
Finishin’ It
Well, we did it! We got the first wall filled and wired shut. Keeping with the trend of not checking our supplies as we have been working on all of this, we realized that the “slim-pickings” of the rock pile was not going to allow us to finish filling the wall. In realizing that, I…
JK Building The Dream 