Too long without posting. Why? I don’t know. You know how you queue up a blog post and it’s going to take too long to write, so you write nothing? I hate that. This is an old story. Today? Today I went out and chopped down an 8 foot tall boxwood bush. But that’s a story for another day.
For the past several winters our washing machine has backed up and flooded our laundry room anytime the temperature went below freezing. It was AWESOME. Nothing like mopping out your garage in freezing weather! We got a $4k estimate on getting the pipe fixed and so we saved and saved. Some people save for vacations. We save for plumbing. In November we had filled our piggy bank, and took the plunge.
The plumbers came out and dug a 4 foot tunnel under our house. Pictures don’t do it justice, but here’s one anyway.
Of course a 4 foot tunnel under your house ends up creating a huge pile of dirt. And anyone who does gardening knows that the amount of dirt you dig out of a hole is roughly 4 times as much as you need to fill the hole back up again.
So I ended up with a nice pile of dirt covering a patch of lawn that already had trouble growing grass. On the Monday before Thanksgiving Julie said I had to do something about the dogs tracking in mud. So I ordered 3 yards of crushed limestone and filled in beds over the next few days.
Day 1
Just filling in existing beds.
Day 2
Etta helped me make the new flowerbed. We scrounged bricks and built a small retaining wall and border.
Then we leveled the bed. But Rhett, what are you doing?!? Keeping you out of the mud was why we started this project in the first place!
After many, many wheelbarrow loads of stone we ended up with this. Note the addition of plants, that we still haven’t planted. When I’m weak I let the girls buy things I have nowhere to plant. Then this happens.
We all love the finished product. Even the dogs.
It all turned out so well Julie wants me to fill in all the rest of the beds that border the house.