Ramblings of a geek with a few hobbies…
I did some yardwork this morning and made a little platform for the newly completed garden utility box to sit on – level even. Here is it, painted and in its final resting place. Some paint touch-ups are needed for areas not touched during the initial paint spraying.
I like it, and Ana has starting filling it with her garden tools!
Tonight I pretty much finished the storage box for the garden I mentioned earlier this week. I’ve been able to work on it for a couple of hours every night this week after David has gone to bed, so quite a bit of progress was made. All that’s left is to find a suitable latch for the front doors and then get it painted/stained/sealed to endure the outdoors.
It has been a fun little project to help me get more comfortable with this type of work. More photos are available. I’ll post more photos once it’s all painted and moved to the garden.
Today I finished the landscaping around our garden. Photos available in Gallery.
Yesterday I ordered some landscape rock (1.5 tons) to be delivered on Thursday so that I could spend the 4th getting the remainder of our garden area complete. I got a call today asking if it was ok for them to just drop it off today instead of tomorrow, and here it is:
Over lunch I figured I would get some of it moved, and made good progress. 40 minutes later, the pile looks like:
At this rate, I’ll be done with my weekend goal before the weekend starts.
It has been raining most of the weekend, which sucks for outdoor activities but is great for gardens!
This picture reminds me that I need to get the landscaping rock ordered and dump off at our house.
The rain is also treating Ana’s azaleas well:
And since you were kind enough to read this far, here’s David:
Today we should be getting some dirt delivered to our house for the garden. Shame on me for taking the advice/experience of the person on the phone when ordering, I was being lazy but finally did the calculations myself and will be ending up with right around 50% more dirt than I’m going to need. Greaaat.
I know I have a few other places in the yard I could use some of the extra, but there will surely be a decent amount left.
So, anyone in Springfield want some topsoil? If not I may just tell them to keep some of what I’ve paid for – an idiot tax of sorts.
Today was an extremely busy day – after getting breakfast made and eaten I ran a half dozen errands, came back and mowed the lawn, ran more errands (with Ana and David this time), then came back and did some more work on the garden we’re putting in this year.
Today I got the frame of the raised bed put into the ground, so we’re ready for some dirt! Last weekend I sprayed roundup in the area with the dead grass because that will all be covered with landscaping rock. It should be a lot of fun once it’s done and we can get things planted.
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