Next step: soil

[miladycarol]

I spent my afternoon in the yard working on the veggie bed. I'm laying bricks where treated lumber once was. I had dug it all out two years ago, laid weed block, then run out of cash to buy the bricks and soil. I've been buying the bricks over the past year and have almost all of them. I was out there this afternoon shoring up the bricks so they lay more or less even. I'll need the soil to kind of plump up any remaining slumping ones.

Eventually, I'd love to brick in other areas of the yard and make nicer gardens there, too. I have an ornamental maple tree that I housed in a wooden barrel for 9 years. The barrel is falling apart around it and the tree has laid a tap root I'm not willing to break. I'm thinking I should just brick around the perimeter of the barrel and fill the rest in with soil. So many plans. So much dirt to move.

Comments

[thoughtsbykat.livejournal.com]

We have lots of plans too. We'll start out slowly. I'm sure your yard is lovely. What ever happened with that rental house you were trying to 'give' away?

[miladycarol.livejournal.com]

We had to close the contest and return the entry fees due to a state ruling. The contest never finished, yet we contacted the woman with the most votes and declared her the unofficial official winner and asked if she'd like us to donate $50 in her name to one of the proposed charities and she picked one. We talked for a bit and then asked if she wanted to rent or rent to own the property. The family met us for coffee, we took them on a tour and they loved it. Really, no one who chooses to live in the PNW could help but love it. It's gorgeous. We had them over for tea on Sunday and to hear him speak of rounding the bend in the road and see his house serenely set in the woods waiting for him like heaven's doors thrown open to receive him was pure poetry. I'm so glad someone who really loves the place lives there.

Thanks for asking.