Posts tagged ‘yard’
- 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 [...]
- 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 [...]
- Like a [concrete] boss on February 6th, 2012
I’ve got the best brother-in-law, hands down. Jeremy’s been living with us since New Year’s or so — as well as the two weeks before Christmas while working for the DC office of his architecture firm — away from his hometown of Atlanta and their office there. He works for one of the bigger US [...]
- Front yard before and after on July 16th, 2011
I noticed an old photo of the front yard right after we planted the yard and thought it was time to do a little comparison. About two months to the day elapsed between these shots.
- Adding some nice curb appeal on May 17th, 2011
Phase one on the front of the house is basically finished. Here’s the front yard 16 days ago and then today. What a difference! As you can see, the garden is well on its way and the lattice and joist have been repainted in our new grey trim we’ll be using elsewhere on the front [...]
- Wrapping up the garden — for the time being on May 3rd, 2011
After just about a week of work, we’ve got the front garden planted. We started by tearing the fence out and pulling out the ivy for about 3 or 4 hours Sunday afternoon. I worked Monday and Tuesday nights after work for a few hours digging up and tearing the roots out (don’t miss this [...]
- Getting started on the front yard on April 24th, 2011
I’m too tired right now to even tell a good story about our latest project. The good news is that it only took us about 3 hours of work this Sunday afternoon to get the fence down and all that ivy pulled out. There are still more roots in the ground from that damn ivy [...]
- Can you spot the changes… on November 28th, 2010
on the front of the house? More are in the pipeline. Random did you know: Did you know that the underside of porches are often painted blue because dirtdobbers and wasps won’t build a nest on anything that is the same color as the sky? Tip to the one and only Josh Penn for that [...]
