Weekend Projects

A new gateway to the garden...

Keeping the dogs at bay...

And a moat fit for a castle.

Well, the last few weekends for me have been BUSY! No doubt about it, summer is here, and all those projects we should have done in the cool of spring have caught up with us. Last weekend it was the front yard - trying to fix the problem of what happens with the water when you build a house with a downward sloping front yard. The yard is so shady, it's hard to get a good picture, but there is now a stream bed with river pebbles leading under the fence. We did a lot of digging and filled some gaps in the foundation with concrete and dug up the flower bed and built the stream bed. With any luck we'll keep any after-the-rain rivers from going under the house from now on.

This weekend we've been working on the back yard. A few weeks ago we built the fence to keep the dogs out of the garden area. Then I pulled out this beautiful arbor which we have been storing and gave it a fresh paint job and a new place to call home. It was a gift from Geoff's mom when we bought our house three years ago.

Anyway, I haven't posted in a pretty good while, but this is what I have to show for all of my time off...