Still Rockin'

It has been a while since I've provided a status report on the ol' yard work project. We had to take a break from our rockin' (also known as "building rock walls") because family was in town, we've been training for Reach the Beach and we had to deal with the dirt.

Dealing with the dirt was not a satisfying experience. There are no photos dramatically illustrating "before dirt" is in the beds and "after dirt" is in the beds. We have no truck and the dirt store is only open 7-3 M-F. Getting six yards of dirt to our house required borrowing a friend's truck during lunch twice (one time Christopher did two dirt runs in the one lunch break), and getting my step-brother and his truck to help us out at 7am on two separate occasions. Between various dirt runs we also had to schlep the dirt one wheelbarrow load at a time from the driveway into the back and shovel it into the beds. Pretty boring and somewhat backbreaking. Not terribly fun or satisfying. And again, no cool pictures to show off.

Getting the dirt in was key because, well, that's what stuff grows in and we are in planting season! We also needed to fill the beds before we could finish the last two little rock walls (it is much easier to traverse the ground with your wheelbarrow when there are not rock walls in your way.)

But the dirt is done and just yesterday evening we finished planting the last of our rocks. The photo is a bit warpy because it is several stitched together in a sort of panorama, but it gives a sense of the yard.

Now imagine a little patio in that circle bit to the left toward the back, take out the wheelbarrow, compost and random boulder that is too heavy to move on our own just now, throw in a bunch of plants and the whole thing starts to take a little shape!