I just love switching projects around on you! I can't seem to stick with one all the way through until I finish it. I always have to start another one. I just have to keep myself busy I guess! So where did I leave off with the backyard? Oh yes, HERE.
Well I finished putting up all the lattice around the bottom of the deck and built the fence for Doggie. Poor Doggie. I'm sorry that Grumpy hates you to much.
But see all this mud still?!?!
So much mud! Everywhere. I hate it. The children LOVE it of course, but I hate it, and so does my washing machine. Its pores are all clogged up from mud!!
Oh wait, look!! Here is some grass growing over on the side yard! Can you see it in this picture? I don't have my glasses on. I feel like you can, but I'm not sure. I think I took this one when it first started to grow. And this is over on the side, not in the place of the two earlier mud pictures... although this spot was MORE MUD.
Ok, I got majorly sidetracked there. Back to the larger mud pit. I will be making a patio on half of it and half will be bark chips. (Child safe ones). We are using these reddish stepping stones for the patio. This is just some of them. well I think there are 40 here, however we have to get about 200 of them. Well no like 150 maybe. I don't know a lot. And they are like 25 pounds each!
But before we put the stones down, we need gravel down. That mud pit does NOT drain. Well our whole yard does not drain well. It is very annoying. But I don't want water pits on my new patio, so I read up on it and thought about it and came up with gravel under for the solution. It turns out this is really what you are supposed to do though for drainage, so I didn't just make it up.
Anyway, we got three yards of gravel. And we started slowly taking it to the back. In this picture I know it looks like the wheelbarrow is not totally full, but WOW it is HEAVY. Who knew that gravel, well rock, would be heavy?! I didn't! So yeah, i'm getting a work out for sure. Grumpy has been helping. (He has maybe done about oh 1/8 of as much as I have of course, but he has done some.) I'm kidding he has been working hard too.
I had to lay some out so that I would see what it is going to look like. This isn't close to being done, but just an idea. And this picture is really weird because I took it straight down from up on the deck. But it is making me dizzy looking at it. Maybe cause I don't have my glasses one. (Oh yeah, I didn't tell you. Little Miss broke my glasses! I have been warring my contacts, but I took them out for the night already.)
So yes, it is going to look gooooooooooood!
Alright. That is it for now! There is more to come though, so stay tuned!!! Thanks for stopping by!
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