Doug's Sounding Board

My body is tired. From Wednesday through this morning, (and leaving out a Fry’s trip and Thanksgiving dinner) if I was awake I was pretty much working on moving and packing things to get ready for the demolition on the kitchen that starts today. Here are plans and before pictures of the kitchen. Tomorrow I […]

It’s been awhile since we’ve had updates, but it’s also been awhile since work has been done while we decide on the next parts to do. I also included some pictures of the house from the driveway that can be compared to the before pictures I think.

We have plants and stuff now. Not all of them, but it’s coming together. We opted for smaller plants that can grow into their places. Sorry I haven’t updated in awhile. I’ve been getting to work while it’s still too dark to go taking pictures, and coming home late to similar lighting conditions.

So now the hard-scaping is basically done. Paths, irrigation lines, big rocks, etc. The next phase is to get some plants in there. I think that starts next week, though it might start this week. Right now they are removing the excess dirt they did not use.

Now we have a new fence, and some irrigation starting to get put in place.

Boulders of various size now inhabit our yard. Also some more flagstone paths have been laid down and a fence is gone.

And some piles and anti-piles were made yesterday. I like coming home and not knowing what has changed during the day.

The flagstones have been better arranged and set and the back step has been mortared in place.

The cement for the new path was poured yesterday and it looks really good. Also the side yard has been cleaned up.

It was sad to have this large fairly old organism removed, but it will be replaced with 3 trees that are easier on the things around it like the driveway, the sidewalk, the utility lines, and any cars parked near it shouldn’t get sapped now. One bright side about the tree being gone (aside from […]