Outside the House

Hi!

We made it through the first week of school!  This week N starts after-school band on Wednesdays and C starts gymnastics on the same day.  That will be our busy day this year!

I took some pics around the yard last week.

Starting from the back door

(BTW, we started draining the pool yesterday.)

K was cleaning the rain barrel (green thing in middle of yard).  

Treehouse and Trailer. 

Raspberries- we got a lot this year! 

Transplanted honeysuckle is doing well. 

K is working on the plumbing for the new washer location,

so, we are cleaning out under the house. 

My dad cleared all this "driveway" area. 

Boat yard. 

Courtyard. 

The Virginia Creeper is creeping onto the storage room! 

Somebody needs to paint that door.... 

Boat accoutrements.

From the front steps. 

Have a great week! :-)

Front Garden/Shed

Hello!

How's your day?  It's raining here now and cloudy -great for the plants!

Yesterday, I got some mulching done in the courtyard.

 I also got the front garden mulched.

This is the front in June, 2014

Close-up mulch pics.

I put mulch by the shed where the transplanted ferns are growing, too!

I didn't mean to dump a whole bag here, but oh well!

It needs a little something in the back- more concrete bag stones?  Not sure....

(Notice the black trash can? It's there because we missed our trash pick up last week and I didn't feel like moving the whole full can back to the courtyard. When I called to find out why they didn't pick up our bin, I discovered we'd been on the cottage plan and our collection wasn't supposed to start until May 28! I guess there was a new driver or something because they usually pick it up!  Anyway, we got it all straightened out (and now owe another $100/year for the service) and it'll get picked up tomorrow.)

Have a fantastic day! :-)

Between some Ferns (Courtyard/Shed)

Well, Hello again!

With the nice weather over the weekend, I got some work done outside.

Including moving some ferns from the courtyard and moving the trashcans over.

This was taken last June.

I liked the ferns there, but wanted to scoot the trash cans over, so when we look out the side master bedroom window we don't see them.

Notice the buried stones in front of the ferns made from bags of concrete that got left out and hardened.

Here's the messy courtyard a couple weeks ago.

This is looking from the Pineapple Door.

 Here's the courtyard now.

(Still a bit messy since our Recycling goes out on Friday and K is figuring out where to keep the gas cans for the boat.)

I moved the fence back.

Right now we have our old BBQ (which will also go out on Friday with the Recycling) in front of it. 

There has been some progress on the step removal behind the orange cone.  K has moved lots of dirt over.

Here it is before. 

 More pics of the other side of the courtyard.

Where did the ferns go? you ask. 

I moved the ferns under the spruce tree by the shed.

I also dug up the concrete bag stones and just placed them around the ferns. There are too many Spruce roots to bury them...

I hope the ferns like it here!

K has been clearing the area behind the shed.

 It gets quite overgrown! This is it last October.

Have a great day! :-)