** 100TH POST! **
Sorry for the delay on these, guys. We’ve been so busy working on the yard that we haven’t had time to take photos and put them up.
Since we last wrote about the yard, we’ve gotten the rest of the sprinklers done in the back and a lot of general work done in the front. We’ve planted two maples in the backyard and three rose bushes with trellises. We’re now to the point – especially in the back – where we’ve run out of small jobs and now face doing either the resodding or the patio overhaul next, both expensive jobs that probably won’t happen until 2009. Everything else is about small plants growing into big plants.
Photos:
This is the Almighty Garden Cart Long May It Reign In Peace. Best ninety bucks at Home Depot that we’ve yet spent on the house and yard. It was a royal pain to put together, but the thing has a load yield of over a ton. It’s perfect for hauling anything that needs to be hauled.
Front of the house, as of this morning. This weekend, Greg mowed the lawn while Kristi and her parents did some serious landscaping work on those shrubs. At the time, I was in backyard, hoeing up weeds around the rose bushes.
Front yard #2, closer shot of the front porch this morning.
Backyard, this morning. The orange tree is blossoming, so we’re getting an orange-scented wind blowing through the house all day and night now. You can see the Patio Which Must Die. At the back left of the photo you can see the rose trellises; that wall behind them was the one we scraped and painted a few weeks ago. I took this shot from the kitchen stoop that you can see in the background of the garden cart shot.
Backyard #2, far right corner. Roses on the right, maple sapling on the left, and that’s the patch of ground that had to be rototilled. That’s also where we did the second round of sprinkler work this weekend. There’s now a head on the fenceline behind the tree and one at the wall, between the second and third trellises. The roses got their first blooms this morning.
Backyard #3.
And here’s the big lug. We can’t ever be out in the yard without Sam wandering out to see what all the fuss is about. He’s poking his head through the electronic dog door that Tuck’s still working on defeating.
