Yard Work

At some point last year, we came to the general consensus that

from the outside, our house looked like a large white cube.

Ever since then we have talked about projects we could do

to make our house look less cube-ish.

During the winter is was too cold for yard work

so our discussions were confined to the kitchen.

But now that Spring has officially set in

(I define the first day of Spring as the first day I spot wildflowers blooming)

it was time to end the procrastination stage and begin getting to work

fixing our cube problem.

Here is what we were starting with:

The first step was to plant some trees,

but in order to do that, we had to dig some holes.

Orin helped by standing in the holes after completion.

He would then assess each hole for shape and depth

before giving us the okay.

We planted 4 trees.

Then it was time to plant some ornamental grasses.

Once again, we needed to start with a hole.

We are hoping that the grass ends up looking

slightly more appealing than it does now.

Next it was time for a slight sprucing of the side of the house
with the addition of a couple of bushes
and an entire packet of wildflower seeds.
We then ran the RotoTiller over our grass/moss/ dead grass

combo, which some people refer to as our lawn

and planted a bed in the front yard, which we lined with rocks.
And then, for good measure, we repeated the process
on the other side of the walkway.
Feeling that we needed more rocks, we decided to build a wall.

It was tedious, sweaty work but it paid off nicely.

And presto!
we now had a rock wall around our cube.

Hummm... more to come.