04-17-05

Final placement and construction of the beds was completed. We may do some more touch up work to them, but I want to get used to them for a little bit before making any more decisions.

Soil will be arriving on Saturday. We'll place brick around the outside of the beds to give me something to mow up against and then river-rock gravel will go between the beds... Eventually.

04-16-05

Annalisa did some layout work, more cleaning and yardwork. I cut all the pieces for the planting beds... Even the rebar which used up the rest of my acetylene. I managed to construct two of the 4 remaining beds before it got too dark.

04-10-05

After a trip to CHarryB4UBuy where we purchased some 4x4 and 5/8x12 cedar, rebar, a shovel and a pitchfork... There was more cleaning, shredding, raking, etc. completed. I managed to construct the center hexagonal planting bed.

04-09-05

Annalisa and her parents did MORE cleaning, shredding, raking, etc. I dissasembled all the old fencing.

04-08-05

I cut out of work after my last meeting and headed home to work in the yard and get the planting bed project underway. Annalisa, Don and Loretta all worked as well, cleaning, shredding, raking, etc. I yanked down all the old cedar fencing. That is my building material for the beds.

03-27-05

This weekend was a big cleanup weekend. We drove 5 trailer loads to Bill's lot and loaded up his pile of to-be-shredded-brush. Before compressing each load with wratcheting tie-downs, each trailer load was as tall as me, or taller. He might regret ever telling me I could dump that stuff there

We also constructed a new compost bin out of old fence pieces. The fence was coming down anyway, and so the compost bin was 100% free.

01-16-05

The shed project was completed in the fall of last year, but I am just now getting around to putting up the gallery. The only things I really want to add to the shed are:
1. Lighting
2. More shelving
3. My "mascot"

The first two are pretty self explanatory. It needs lighting inside and I'd also like the porch to be lit, at least a little. Shelving is always a good thing. The mascot though, you migh tbe wondering what I am smoking...

See the board that extends from the peak of the roof over the porch? THAT is going to be my mascot. Or symbol... Something symbolic... Of the house or yard or property perhaps? Whatever, it needs something interesting so I am going to carve a dragon or gargoyle or something equally nifty there. I'm accepting suggestions.

Tabulating

Lots, with help from Dad

07-25-04

We bought a bunch of plants at Always the Garden and Annalisa planted them.

07-24-04

Annalisa pulled a lot of weeds.

2

05-16-04

Annalisa did a bunch of work cleaning up the front porch and in the area directly in front of it. All the moss and weeds were pulled from the bricks. The soil where the overgrown trees once crowded the entrance was regraded somewhat and covered with mulch until we are ready to landscape there.

• 6 pots from Bob's Original Farm Market = $21.00

$21.00

5

05-15-04

Annalisa did a bunch of work ...???what was that work Annalisa???? Tel me and I'll put it here.

$$$Geraniums from the market???

5

05-09-04

The day dawned cloudy but full of promise. After fortifying breakfast of scrapple and eggs... We dug into it. Literally.
I climbed the ladder to remove the old windopw boxes and devise a new fitment system. We'd planned to plant the area in front of the living room but when we looked at it closer, it became clear that some drainage issues needed to be addressed first. We are still planning that out. So we switched gears to things we could complete today.

We bought some very nice containers for either side of the front door. We bought new window boxes. We bough soil and mulch. We bought plants. We bought nuts and bolts (brass) too. We planted boxes and containers and dug holes and all matter of great stuff. I even cleaned up the rest of the lumber pile and swept the parking spot out for a finished appearance (so long as you don't look over at the other side of the driveway).

The results are seen in the pictures. Things are looking up. We are tired, so it was a good weekend. As I write this, I am wet but drying since I ran out shirtless into the rain to turn off the car alarm... before this fantastic thunderstorm set it off again. It is in the last hour of this day and I suspect there are people trying to sleep.

• 2 red pro mix = $21.98
• 2 planters = $39.98
• 3 scabiosa = $23.97
• 2 window boxes = $14.78
• 5 sherwood mulch = $18.45
• Always the Garden = $119.16
• Assorted plants from Bob's Market = $24.96

$144.12

7(x2)=14

05-08-04

I met Bill at his house at 7:30 ayem to pick up the Roto-tiller. We stuck it into the SPG and I went back home for breakfast. I made waffles.

Around 9-ish we decided it was OK to fire up the roto-tiller. So I tilled the area where the holly bushes used to live. Tilled it but good. Darlene showed up and I packed the roto-tiller back into the SPG and left for Jakes (where I'd till some more).

Annalisa and Darlene worked most of the day on planting that space I'd tilled. They went out and bought more stuff too. Plants and stuff. (They also met with our Corvette driving realtor Chet to check out a house for Sam, which they loved). Darlene fell ill in the afternoon and had to step in for a nap but Annalisa was not slowed. When Dad and I arrived in the evening Darlene had recovered and was helping put the final layer of mulch on the newly planted bed.

Dad and I decided we weren't tired enough and so undertook some rearranging and cleaning duties. We wanted to move the lumberpile to behind the garage... But there was a Sonett body in the way. So we took the Quantum body off the big steel rack and put it in the studio. Then we moved all the plywood off the rack. We SOMEHOW managed to get the big HEAVY steel rack alongside the garage and over the other Sonett body. It was a comparitively simple matter to put the Sonett body that was in the way on top of the rack and double-deck my two orange SOnett bodies. About the time we finished that up Sam and Mike show up. Sam and Darlene take off to go check out that house and Mike helped Dad and I lug the big garage-lifting beam luber back behind the garage. Good thing he showed up.

The day was finished up with a fantastic dinner that Annalisa and I prepared for ourselves, Dad, M&M (Mike and Michelle), Darlene and Sam. All were sated, perhaps even Sam.

• 3 scabiosa = $23.97
• 2 coreopsis moon = $15.98
• 3 lavender = $44.97
• Total = $84.92

$84.92

~15

04-24-04

The UD Ag Dept plant sale took a lot of our money. We saw Pat and Judy and Nick Tomlan (and Nick's fiance who's name I have forgotten) there.

We did a lot of cleaning up and preparing for planting. I tore out the holly bushes by the greenhouse and trimmed dead from various shrubberies. Annalisa planted a bunch of stuff in the area in front of the sitting room. Hellebores and stuff.

Bought a Helleborus from Gateway Garden Center $15.99

$$$???

5(x2)=10