North side yard shaping up
The North side yard got an incremental boost to-day with dry weather in the afternoon. I added four feet of the temporary brick path way (temporary because I have not done the work to flatten, straighten and add a drainage base) with a corresponding channel for the ditch.
Byron Hill is taller for all the removed dirt.
I re-organized and sorted the rocks against the fence, surrounding and expanding the areas underlaid with landscape fabric. The pea gravel pile became a supporting structure for smaller slate pieces. Larger pieces were put against the fence. The left side was where all the concrete pieces went., followed by the river rock which I pushed together to a depth of 3 inches.
The ledge had some glass and pottery shards. I cleaned it off. By the way, I have a good idea for using all those glass and pottery shards: clean them and put them in a large sealed glass jar! The glass at different angles with some green and brown glass should look nice when the sun hits it! I had been throwing them away, but why not make them useful!
All of the bricks laying around in different places were stacked in the stairwell reserved space or used in the walkway expansion.
I dug two pilot holes for the posts and filled with the largest concrete pieces. All tools and the two gate posts were moved behind the water barrel.
In short, I have made the front of the house more presentable as I get closer to finishing the north side.
I don't know when I will get a chance to work on this again. Not to-morrow: supposed to rain.
Maybe next weekend...supposed to be sunny and dry.
It is possible I can finish the rest of the temporary walkway to the end of the stairwell reserved space and begin the ditch. Wouldn't it be great if I could dig the ditch, drill the holes in the pipe, connect it, add landscape fabric and then river rock? Then all those bags of rocks now sitting in the drainage terminus can be removed and used as I had hoped.
Next step after that: finish the posts for the gate, connect the fence with rails, add pickets, plant concrete pillars and paint.
Then:
[ ] cut tree branch
[ ] move the wood to under the tree
[ ] landscape the slope from the fence to the drainage
[ ] transplant the small evergreen to a large pot
[ ] dig out and flatten the tether ball circle.
[ ] dig ditch for rest of drainage using flexy pipe
[ ] put in retaining wall for tetherball circle
[ ] complete path
[ ] plant fruit tree
[ ] add plants on both sides of the walkway
[ ] adjust base of heat exchanger
[ ] adjust base of the rain barrel
[ ] add tether ball pole
[ ] add flagpole
[ ] landscape area around flagpole
[ ] add first post for north picket fence
[ ] add rails
[ ] add pickets
[ ] cut pickets
[ ] paint first section
[ ] add base and drainage to walkway
[ ] add base and drainage to natural rock path
Who knows when good weather will coincide with my available time, but I keep looking for opportunities.
For the first time in my life I was not able to spend all of my vacation days in the year I earned them, so I have four days coming from 2017 which I get to spend in 2018. If I can find some sunny weekends with a sunny Friday or even Thursday I will spend them that way!
Byron Hill is taller for all the removed dirt.
I re-organized and sorted the rocks against the fence, surrounding and expanding the areas underlaid with landscape fabric. The pea gravel pile became a supporting structure for smaller slate pieces. Larger pieces were put against the fence. The left side was where all the concrete pieces went., followed by the river rock which I pushed together to a depth of 3 inches.
The ledge had some glass and pottery shards. I cleaned it off. By the way, I have a good idea for using all those glass and pottery shards: clean them and put them in a large sealed glass jar! The glass at different angles with some green and brown glass should look nice when the sun hits it! I had been throwing them away, but why not make them useful!
All of the bricks laying around in different places were stacked in the stairwell reserved space or used in the walkway expansion.
I dug two pilot holes for the posts and filled with the largest concrete pieces. All tools and the two gate posts were moved behind the water barrel.
In short, I have made the front of the house more presentable as I get closer to finishing the north side.
I don't know when I will get a chance to work on this again. Not to-morrow: supposed to rain.
Maybe next weekend...supposed to be sunny and dry.
It is possible I can finish the rest of the temporary walkway to the end of the stairwell reserved space and begin the ditch. Wouldn't it be great if I could dig the ditch, drill the holes in the pipe, connect it, add landscape fabric and then river rock? Then all those bags of rocks now sitting in the drainage terminus can be removed and used as I had hoped.
Next step after that: finish the posts for the gate, connect the fence with rails, add pickets, plant concrete pillars and paint.
Then:
[ ] cut tree branch
[ ] move the wood to under the tree
[ ] landscape the slope from the fence to the drainage
[ ] transplant the small evergreen to a large pot
[ ] dig out and flatten the tether ball circle.
[ ] dig ditch for rest of drainage using flexy pipe
[ ] put in retaining wall for tetherball circle
[ ] complete path
[ ] plant fruit tree
[ ] add plants on both sides of the walkway
[ ] adjust base of heat exchanger
[ ] adjust base of the rain barrel
[ ] add tether ball pole
[ ] add flagpole
[ ] landscape area around flagpole
[ ] add first post for north picket fence
[ ] add rails
[ ] add pickets
[ ] cut pickets
[ ] paint first section
[ ] add base and drainage to walkway
[ ] add base and drainage to natural rock path
Who knows when good weather will coincide with my available time, but I keep looking for opportunities.
For the first time in my life I was not able to spend all of my vacation days in the year I earned them, so I have four days coming from 2017 which I get to spend in 2018. If I can find some sunny weekends with a sunny Friday or even Thursday I will spend them that way!