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Spygirl
Moderator

04-23-2001

Monday, April 25, 2005 - 8:03 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
The first of April, we did some landscaping - planting new trees and sprucing up. Here are some shots from the weekend....


This is us shopping for new trees....at the crack of dawn Friday.
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We planted two trees in the front yard. The one closest to the street is a River Birch. The one back toward the left edge of the house is a Purpleleaf (sand) Plum. We re-worked the flower beds and trimmed up everything else. There is a Spiria (sp?) on the far left side of the house, Ewes and Barbary's in the front (I realize I am butchering the spellings).
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The backyard was the most difficult project. There are 5 trees in the backyard...the center one is a crabapple, the two on either side are pear trees (Artistocrat pears), the one in the big flower bed in the corner is an Ash tree. There is another not in any picture that is an October Glory Maple.

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We also hauled in about 2 tons of topsoil and leveled the yard. The sprinkler system trenches had sunk in as well as the sewer line. We had to re-seed and fertilize. It already looks a lot better 3 weeks later than it does in these photographs.



Froggiegirl621
Member

02-14-2003

Monday, April 25, 2005 - 8:46 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Great job! Are you available to landscape my small but mighty back yard anytime soon? It really looks great and will only get better with time.

I noticed that the first two pics are out of order time-wise and realized that Flyboy gave you his fleece to wear so you could be warm...too cute! He sure is a gentleman!


Twinkie
Member

09-24-2002

Monday, April 25, 2005 - 9:01 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Your house and yard are so pretty, Spybaby!

Spygirl
Moderator

04-23-2001

Monday, April 25, 2005 - 9:09 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Good eye, Froggie. He did take his fleece off for me

I forgot to mention...the long flower bed in the backyard that is not filled with cedar mulch is going to be filled with crushed rock. Eventually. When one or both of us sells a kidney. :-)


Egbok
Member

07-13-2000

Monday, April 25, 2005 - 9:46 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
It's looking really nice Spy. Don't sell that kidney, it's needed for insurance...

Texannie
Member

07-16-2001

Tuesday, April 26, 2005 - 5:16 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
8:57 is the CRACK of dawn??????????????

Froggiegirl621
Member

02-14-2003

Tuesday, April 26, 2005 - 9:46 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
LOL

Don't worry Spy, anything earlier than 9am is considered "crack of dawn" to me too!


Spygirl
Moderator

04-23-2001

Tuesday, April 26, 2005 - 10:13 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I'm usually up around 9am each day - that day, we were up before 7am! I know that must sound silly, but I actually teach until 10pm on Thursday nights. That means I wind down somewhere around 1-2am. Trying to go to bed any earlier is like asking an 8-5 work person to come home from work at 5 and go to sleep for the night by 6. I just adjusted my sleep schedule to fit my workday. :-)

Texannie
Member

07-16-2001

Tuesday, April 26, 2005 - 10:41 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I remember those days! Now, my day starts early and ends early.

Twinkie
Member

09-24-2002

Tuesday, April 26, 2005 - 3:07 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
^5, Spy! I've been telling people for years that nobody comes home from work at 5PM and climbs into bed for the night so why should we when its 2AM instead? Everybody acts like its such a big deal when I tell them we go to bed around 6 or 7AM. Sheesh.

Jagger
Member

08-07-2002

Tuesday, May 03, 2005 - 6:05 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Spy your yard looks very nice, it looks like you've put quite a few hours of hard work into it already and will probably put in a few more hours. It looks like a pretty big yard so it'll give you lots of different options.

Kristylovesbb
Member

09-14-2000

Tuesday, May 03, 2005 - 9:47 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Just came back in the house after putting the finishing touches on the new picnic/grill area I constructed. I will put some pictures up in just a little while, hard work I tell ya!LOL

Syp your yard look so nice.

Kristylovesbb
Member

09-14-2000

Tuesday, May 03, 2005 - 12:22 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
This job took me two entire days. I dug out all the area where the round table sits so it would be lower than the cooking area and picnic table. I'm beat but I love it!

Patio 011

Kristylovesbb
Member

09-14-2000

Tuesday, May 03, 2005 - 12:28 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
You can see this one much better, the above is too dark

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Skootz
Member

07-23-2003

Tuesday, May 03, 2005 - 12:31 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
wow, what a great place to hang out and relax (especially now you are done digging) you did a great job. It looks awesome! What times supper?

Wink
Member

10-06-2000

Tuesday, May 03, 2005 - 12:33 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Kristy that looks like your own little paradise in the trees. Nice job.

Kristylovesbb
Member

09-14-2000

Wednesday, May 04, 2005 - 8:22 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thanks you guys I sure do love it.

Jagger
Member

08-07-2002

Monday, May 09, 2005 - 12:27 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I love the view Kristy, I wish I had a spot like that to sit back and relax after a hard days work.

Kristylovesbb
Member

09-14-2000

Wednesday, May 11, 2005 - 5:49 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thanks Jagger, I sure do enjoy it.

Kristylovesbb
Member

09-14-2000

Wednesday, May 11, 2005 - 5:51 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I have been harvesting my spring onions butter lettuce and purple lettuce, yum! Oh and radishes. I made a yummy salad last night with fresh picked items from the garden. Yea!!!

Skootz
Member

07-23-2003

Thursday, May 12, 2005 - 3:51 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
my lettuce and radishes are just peaking through my garden. Too cold yet for planting the rest of it. Cannot wait for a fresh lettuce salad. yum yum

Kristylovesbb
Member

09-14-2000

Sunday, May 15, 2005 - 4:22 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I have all kinds of things coming up in my garden, problem is I don't know if some of them are weeds or something I planted. Hard for me to tell the difference!

Jagger
Member

08-07-2002

Monday, May 16, 2005 - 1:05 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
LOL Kristy, just give them some time they are easier to figure out what they are after they've grown a bit.

I haven't planted anything yet, we've had a couple of weeks of cold and rain, only thing growing in the veggie garden right now is weeds, weeds and more weeds.

Kristylovesbb
Member

09-14-2000

Monday, May 16, 2005 - 1:26 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
LOL, Jagger some of them are six inches high and I still can't tell! I am going to make some pictures of them to post and see if anyone knows what they are.

Wargod
Moderator

07-16-2001

Monday, May 16, 2005 - 1:42 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Heck Kristy, just tell anyone who asks that they are an exotic new plant and leave them, LOL. I was digging out weeds last week and some of them were pretty enough that I was tempted to keep them!

I'm getting such a late start on planting anything because of the rain that I'm seriously thinking about not planting any flowers. I have all kinds of rocks, stepping stones, garden stakes, and resin figures that I think I might just set all that up and leave it for this year, lol. Maybe plant a few flowers, but that might be about all. Of course then I'd miss all the pretty flowers, LOL.