(View at my bus stop)
And today, because we live in Utah, was a perfect day for working outside. Aaron and I woke up, ate breakfast and immediately moved outside to work!
The Songkran party is going to be next weekend and we have to get this yard party ready!!
Last year we replaced the railroad ties but we didn't quite finish the end. We didn't know what we wanted to do at the end and we had a big pile of dirt that we had plans for that kind of...got abandoned. SO! We had to finished that up.
Oh, go back up to the picture of the pile of dirt. See the raspberry bush at the right of the pile of dirt? Yeah...that can't stay there.
Look we finished! That was fast.
We actually had to move a bunch of that dirt first. Then we had to rip out the raspberry bush and plant it over here.
Not a whole lot of root came up with it...so hopefully it won't die. If it does, we have plenty of raspberry where that came from! But I hope it lives because I will eat whatever I can get!
We also had to run to Lowe's to get one last beam to finish up this raised flower bed. And we got some other stuff while we were there.
Mandarin oranges? What are you doing here?
It is small enough to be an indoor plant during the winter and an outdoor plant during the summer! I'm actually pretty excited about this new addition to our garden plants!
Moving on to other things that we got done.
Check out how green and lush our backyard grass/weeds are!! Also, do you like our blue kiddie pool? Seriously, if you know who owned that before the wind storm, let me know...but we are totally going to use it for Songkran!
Aaron mowed it! Like a boss! And where did the kiddie pool go?
Oh! On the cement! Where it won't kill any grass or sit in the flower bed!
Because where the kiddie pool was staying, was the same place we were filling with the dirt from the before mentioned pile of dirt! We put black plastic over the ground where our garden is going to end up being.
Hopefully this will calm out weed problem down. Like...last year after sifting all the dirt, I feel like we spread the weeds to every single inch of dirt. Not to mention the dirt was the store bought enriched kind and so the weeds went WILD.
So...IT WILL BURN!
Oh, see that little plant right at the end of the black plastic toward the front? Yeah, that plant has been there since the original owner of the house planted it in the 1950's...and we can't kill it. We have tried! So, it is staying. I don't have it in me to try and kill it every single year.
The last thing that we did today was go over the yard with a high powered magnet to find all of the nails left from the roofing project. The magnet cost $15. How much does a tetanus shot cost? I think we got our money's worth.
A felt like it was a pretty productive day. There is nothing better than working hard all day and then sitting on your back step with your husband and seeing how much better everything looks.
Oh, we also started a vermicompost bin....sans worms. We will have to get the worms online since we've looked all over for them locally. Oh, and we are going to need a different bucket.
And that was what we did our first April weekend at home.
Your mom's grandpa use to have an old bathtub buried in the ground for his worm beds. He had a lid of some sort on it but yep buried a bathtub in the yard for his worms.
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