Good day everyone! The backyard landscaping project started this weekend, and while I was the one wielding the shovel, I feel like I was beat repeatedly with one myself. I hardly made it through two days, I'm not sure how I'm going to make it through three weeks of this. Oh well, by the end we should have nice yard to enjoy for the rest of summer.
Good day everyone! The backyard landscaping project started this weekend, and while I was the one wielding the shovel, I feel like I was beat repeatedly with one myself. I hardly made it through two days, I'm not sure how I'm going to make it through three weeks of this. Oh well, by the end we should have nice yard to enjoy for the rest of summer.
Sean, have you been watching too much HGTV? It looks like one person or a couple accomplishes all that in a weekend. What they don't show you is the army of people who do the actual work when the camera is turned off LOL
It's cloudy here today, which I enjoy. The sun bothers my eyes.
I know how those shows work Margaret, I just want to know where my army of people is. I promise I'll turn off my camera if they come do the work.
We laid out what we thought was a reasonable schedule of work for us to do, intermixed with work we are getting other people to do. But you know what they say about "the best laid plans." They were thrown off in the first weekend when I staked out the patio area, and tried to see where a level line for the bricks would be. The point that is 3 inches below ground by the house, is 10 inches above ground at the other end of the patio 20 feet away. That means the ground drops over 1.25 inches for every 2 feet! Luckily I did have a little buffer time build in, but it will quickly be chewed up with building a level base for the patio.
Our (what we thought) reasonable schedule:
Up this week: getting top soil for the garden spread, and spreading crushed rock for the path along the back of the house from the garage to the patio.
This coming weekend: Planting lots and lots (50 to be exact) of trees. (Someone else is digging the holes.)
Next week: Boxing off the garden and playset with landscaping ties, and filling the playset area with bark chips and sand.
Next weekend: Setting up the irrigation system.
The following week: Some minor little things, and all the buffer time that will now be consumed with building a level case for the patio.
The next (hopefully last) weekend: Building the patio, which involves placing a mere 5 tons (4.6 tonnes for you metric minded people) of patio bricks. It may sound like it should take longer to lay all that brick, but it's really only 225 bricks at 45 pounds a piece.
Finally, the 15th/16th of May should see the topsoil for the yard spread, the lawn edging put in, the bark in place around the perimeter of the yard, and the sod put down. None of this is being done by me which is why it can be accomlished in 2 days.
I suspect some of you did not have the opportunity to read the following post I made a few days back, so I will repost it just in case you missed it:
At times nature can be cruel, but there is also a raw beauty, and even a certain justice manifested within that cruelty.
Every once in a while, we must face the cruelty of nature head on, as revolting as it sometimes is when a pack of canines attack.
The alligator, one of the oldest and ultimate predators, normally considered the "apex predator", can still fall victim to implemented 'team work' strategy, made possible due to the tight knit social structure and "survival of the pack mentality" bred into canines.
This remarkable photograph is courtesy of Nature Magazine. Note that the Alpha dog has a muzzle hold on the gator preventing it from breathing, while another dog has a hold on the tail to keep it from thrashing. The third dog attacks the soft underbelly of the gator.
Maybe we did see it Don and we are just shaking heads laughing that this is a typical Don link (smiley face inserted here except that I can't find them)
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Beneath the skin of every prince is really just one of the Seven Dwarfs in disguise
Oh there are the smiley faces (I lost them for a moment)
Something that I have often wondered - what are the green/blue/red circles and triangles that are under our names.
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Beneath the skin of every prince is really just one of the Seven Dwarfs in disguise
Treena, the green circle states that you are currently on line. The red "stop sign" is to report an offensive post. The others I can't remember, but if you just hover your cursor over the symbol for a few seconds, it automatically tells you the function of each colour.
Oh there are the smiley faces (I lost them for a moment)
Something that I have often wondered - what are the green/blue/red circles and triangles that are under our names.
Hover your mouse over the circles and triangles and it will tell you - the green circle means the person is on line and the red triangle is for reporting a post.
Don, I did see the viscous dogs mauling that poor alligator, but I guess I didn't comment. I was appalled
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