Making Landscape Headway

Hump-Day House Stuff, Uncategorized 1 Minute

Well, despite other jobs conflicting with a lot of the guys’ work during the weekdays, whenever they show up, they seriously crank.

Here were some results, a couple of hours into day three:

  • Beginnings of the foundation garden on the side
  • Early work on walk to side patio and border for front garden
  • Front garden
  • Dry-layout of front walk

Then, about five hours later, we were here:

  • Front walk getting mortared in
  • Walk to side partially laid out and getting mortared in

Then came day four:

  • Great progress on walk to side and edging
  • Front walk almost there

And on day five, the efforts of just one guy got us here:

  • A different angle on the side patio

Believe it or not, even with all that stone we had delivered, we need more! The order for that is in process, and hopefully, we’ll have delivery by late this week so the guys can keep the momentum going this coming weekend.

Here are a couple from this morning, now that I’ve added some seasonal decorations to the front. We’ll see how long the pumpkins and gourds will last before the squirrels feast on them.

And in the meantime, Tim also attached the finial to the garage cupola:

Published by Marcia Formica

I am an evolving experiment in self-actualization. After a 31+ year corporate career, I ditched my suits and pumps and finally tumbled into my “why” in the fall of 2018. My first (possibly only?!) book, "Zen (and Rage) and the Art of a Never-Ending Home Renovation," was published in December of 2021. It is a humorous and sometimes harrowing account of surviving, and even thriving through, a decade-plus home renovation project being jointly delivered by my husband and me, with an occasional few contractors and (sometimes more than) a little help from our friends. I continue to share the ongoing saga on my Hump-Day House Stuff posts. My passion for the links between food and public and environmental health can be found in my "Food Friday" posts. For fun (and profit), I am a practitioner of value investing and disciplined trading strategies. I've been on the adventure of marriage to my husband Tim since 1993. We have 2 (arguably) grown sons, James and Owen, and the best family (including my mom & dad, whose care I'm helping with, which I also blog about in Mom & Dad Monday) and friends I could ever have imagined for myself.

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