adventuresinhomeimprovement
i decided right before I turned into the development on the way home, to go to the garden section of KMart instead because weeds were coming up in between the lava rocks and the neighbors across the street this past weekend bit my landscaping technique, from the lava rock to the black edging down to the solar accent lights, but they put down the protective antiweed mesh layer under the lava rocks – so it was on. what was I thinking. getting all those rocks up along with the dirt and the remnants of the mulch option after the pine needles – faded cedar chips – was a task before I put down the mesh. and I was only working on a section 1/5 of the entire area. I felt really dumb. I should have done this in the first place but I didn’t know better. I was out there using shovels, rakes, brooms and getting up dirt with the rocks which was defeating the purpose. the words daunting task kept coming up about 60 times. what was I thinking? i missed this on the DIY channel if they covered it. I stepped on the rake 3 times, but with no injueries. I had red rocks and clay in in a pile in the driveway and in the empty trash can which was my plan A storage space. my across the street neighbor came over out of curiousity, I deserved that. then my next door neighbor asked me to help her assemble her electric blower…if she had a mulching mower instead of a bagger she wouldn’t need to blow the clippings off the driveway…the ground in front of the runoff from the rainspout was really moist…it gave way ever so slighty when I stood in certain areas but kept its form. when I was collecting the rocks after putting down the mesh I devised a system of sifting the dirt from the rocks using a rake, looking like a prospector from the 1800s old west. I ended up doing a lot of them by hand and every now and then between the lava rocks I would pick up a ball of clay and it amazed my how pliable, cool and moist it was…like the kind from grade school – that made up for everything I had gone through. I didn’t finish until after 10.
Dee Dub laughed at me and said I was domesticated today when I told him I got a bird feeder. I didnt tell him I got two.