Posts from the ‘Backyard’ Category
I was thinking yesterday as I was installing the sod in the backyard about all the hours and sweat and some blood (and maybe just a few tears) that it took to get to this point. My goodness, we’ve come a long way from where we started in the backyard over two full years ago. [...]
- To say our backyard was full of rocks is like saying the Grand Canyon is “kinda deep” on April 29th, 2013
And saying that “my hands are a little sore” today is like saying “our backyard is full of rocks” I rented a tiller late Friday night and cranked ‘er up in the backyard early Saturday morning. I think I may have used one years ago, but I had no memory of the fact that it’s [...]
When we last looked at the backyard, my RiverSmart contractor was racing to finish up the paver walk before we got a blast of March snow more than a month ago. They did indeed finish up that day, and the yard looked so tidy and beautiful that next day with a light coat of beautiful snow [...]
I came home today to find the landscaping contractors wrapping up the first day’s work on the new paver walk, finishing up the layer of quarter stone and pea gravel. Finally! This project has been a long time coming. We were initially trying to pull this together all the way back in summer and fall [...]
- The cute reason we haven’t shown off a finished backyard fence on January 10th, 2013
See, I know you’ve been jonesing to see a finished backyard fence, or read about some new project we’ve tackled, but we’ve just been way too busy through the holidays looking after this little lady. Aren’t you strangely filled with love and forgiveness now for our lack of activity lately? I thought so. The weeks [...]
- Two steps down in the back on November 27th, 2012
In the two months since I finished the backyard retaining wall, getting down to the alley and the trash/recycling cans has required a short jump down. And then a small climb back up. Because there were no steps…until this weekend. I could’ve built the steps weeks ago, but I wanted to make sure that they [...]
- Burning Thanksgiving calories by building a new garden bed on November 26th, 2012
And we’re back with a bang! Yes, we’ve been away since October, but our sweet baby girl (oh, and life in general) has been keeping us so busy that we’ve barely managed to do any projects around the house worth blogging about. But I just had almost a full week off work, so here comes [...]
- A surprising discovery for the backyard raised beds on September 28th, 2012
We’ve been planning on raised beds all along in the backyard running along almost the entire length of the northern fence. This is partially because it’s easier to tend a garden when you don’t have to get on your knees to do so, and because we want fresh new soil for planting things we’re going [...]
- Finishing up the backyard retaining wall on September 21st, 2012
After one week, the backyard retaining wall is done. Even as I wrote that just now, I was so dubious that it was actually just one week that I brought up my calendar to doublecheck and make sure I wasn’t imagining things. Yep. I went and got the sledgehammer last Thursday night, came home from [...]
- Planning out the rest of the backyard on September 20th, 2012
While the retaining wall is almost finished, we’ve been going back and forth on the master plan for the rest of the yard. (About that wall: I disassembled it and started spiking the bottom run after work Wednesday, but ran out of rebar. I woke up early Thursday and ran up to my favorite DC [...]
