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  • 11/23/08-12/3/08 Quicksand 3
  • 11/23/08-12/3/08 Quicksand 2
  • 11/23/08-12/3/08 Quicksand 1
  • 11/14/08 Footprints in the sand
  • All old woodworking projects except the deck fence have been copied (but not removed) from here to Woodwork. Now you'll have two pages to come see for updates on my projects!
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    Springing back to work - 3/10-11/07

    This weekend I accepted the fact that spring is here. I made a list in my head over and over the past few weeks of things I could work on. I've had lots of lists... but with my taxes and some other financial type things now done, I made the work list. I decided to start on the yard before it got out of hand. So.. Heres what I did (no pictures yet sorry).


    First I knocked of some easy things. I went around the yard picking up. It started with just some sticks, but quickly turned into me pushing a wheel barrow around with gutter parts, bottles, cans, flower pots, and a few other odds and ends. In order to feel better about all the carnage, I threw it all into the the firepit. Actually I should go out and check to see if it's still smoldering. Be right back... Ok.. it's all good. So anyhow, after picking things up I went back to one of the piles of compost that was created from the big lawn reseeding from a while back. I have an occasional sink hole in the front lawn. I dumped about 4 loads of dirt in, jumped on it a bunch, and let it sit overnight. Hmm.. what else did I do.. Oh I cut the rose bush back some. But it was too pointy to do much with.



    Sunday rolled around and I woke up to a brave new daylight savings world. Ah time travel. I would love to .. um.. what the heck was I going to say? I forget. Anyhow. Today I started the fire up and did some more triming of plants in the front. I also finished up the hole and put of those bendy gutter extensions on that side of the house. Looks very professional. After that I started to check around and prepare for seeding the lawn. The spots by the side of the house needed some serious weeding and cleaning. I cleared out a lot of the crab grass and got distracted by the retaining wall. Ugh.. it's been falling over a lot. so I sat down and started putting it back together. I did most of one side and went out to look in on Odie's cat.


    When I came back I finished up more of the wall and got to work on clearing out the ground. I pulled out all the crab crass on the side of the house by the deck. I was a little frustrated with growing grass back there because it always gets walked on. Not easy to grow when it's always getting walked on. I dug up the ground some, took some stones out from beside the shed and made a walkway. Once that was in I put down some seed and fertilizer, tossed some water and straw on it and with any luck. I will have a nice grassy patch with walkway in no time at all. Wish me luck!