This post is pretty much a simple, boring one, just to share some pics. The pics were taken over the weekend where we basically did nothing... The pics below are from Sunday, of us hanging out in the morning and on the patio in the afternoon. The high chairs we have are extremely convenient. they can attach securely to any chair. making it easy to prop the boys up anywhere.
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Oh I forgot about me FINALLY starting the landscaping work in our front yard. It's nothing that big...just something to pretty up the area to the left (to the right, if you're looking at our house) of our front door. We had crappy ol' 70's style hedges right there at the top of the drive way, and a brick retaining wall for what was once a flower bed under the front bathroom window. The hedges needed to come out and so did the bricks...for my master plan that i am envisioning in my head.
The last time I removed these same kind of hedges, along our driveway in order to put the rock bed and landscape lights in, I cut them all down by hand and cut the roots out with a small axe. This time..with the weight of lacking interest in manual labor weighing over me, i decided to go rent a Sawz-All at The Home Depot(i think that's what they are called). Much to my shagrin they were not renting those out. So i went down the tool isle and lo -n- behold for $50 i can own my own Ryobi saws-all thig-a-ma-jig! (Reciprocating Saw I find they are called) So I picked one up.
WHERE WAS ONE OF THESE DARN THINGS WHEN I TOOK THOSE OTHER HEDGES OUT TWO YEARS AGO!!!????
Man this thing "cut down" labor time by 75%. I was loving it. However I still needed to rip the roots out. This time I chose to use a spade shovel and wedge & yank 'em out. Worked like a charm! After the hedges were out, and I cleaned up the mess...I moved on to the bricks. Not as easy getting these puppies out. As below the surface of the dirt, there was another layer of bricks which was firmly embedded in a nice foundation of concrete. So, i tried just wedging the shovel under one end of the 'wall' and counter levering it to pry it out. Just like that, the whole thing unearthed and came out in one large 8ft long x 2ft high piece. Pretty damn good concrete foundation huh? Anyway...now that the wall was out I had to break all the bricks out of their place for ease of disposal. Sadly during this whole ordeal...the boys were inside with mommy and they were not letting her have the calmest saturday afternoon. I felt horrible as I could not go in to help calm either of them. I was covered in sweat and lots of dirt. After a few times checking in on things, I started laying in the 24 retaining wall cement blocks I purchased while at The Home Depot. After doing so I realized I needed much more dirt to elevate the flower bed to the top of this new small wall. My question is...where do i get dirt???? Does the Depot sell it, do i find someone getting rid of dirt....puzzling
Ok that's it... for now...the project is not finished yet. The next step will be to pick out what flowers, trees, and/or shrubs we plan on including in this landscape.
The last time I removed these same kind of hedges, along our driveway in order to put the rock bed and landscape lights in, I cut them all down by hand and cut the roots out with a small axe. This time..with the weight of lacking interest in manual labor weighing over me, i decided to go rent a Sawz-All at The Home Depot(i think that's what they are called). Much to my shagrin they were not renting those out. So i went down the tool isle and lo -n- behold for $50 i can own my own Ryobi saws-all thig-a-ma-jig! (Reciprocating Saw I find they are called) So I picked one up.
WHERE WAS ONE OF THESE DARN THINGS WHEN I TOOK THOSE OTHER HEDGES OUT TWO YEARS AGO!!!????
Man this thing "cut down" labor time by 75%. I was loving it. However I still needed to rip the roots out. This time I chose to use a spade shovel and wedge & yank 'em out. Worked like a charm! After the hedges were out, and I cleaned up the mess...I moved on to the bricks. Not as easy getting these puppies out. As below the surface of the dirt, there was another layer of bricks which was firmly embedded in a nice foundation of concrete. So, i tried just wedging the shovel under one end of the 'wall' and counter levering it to pry it out. Just like that, the whole thing unearthed and came out in one large 8ft long x 2ft high piece. Pretty damn good concrete foundation huh? Anyway...now that the wall was out I had to break all the bricks out of their place for ease of disposal. Sadly during this whole ordeal...the boys were inside with mommy and they were not letting her have the calmest saturday afternoon. I felt horrible as I could not go in to help calm either of them. I was covered in sweat and lots of dirt. After a few times checking in on things, I started laying in the 24 retaining wall cement blocks I purchased while at The Home Depot. After doing so I realized I needed much more dirt to elevate the flower bed to the top of this new small wall. My question is...where do i get dirt???? Does the Depot sell it, do i find someone getting rid of dirt....puzzling
Ok that's it... for now...the project is not finished yet. The next step will be to pick out what flowers, trees, and/or shrubs we plan on including in this landscape.
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