I apologize for the lack of posting lately...we have been SO busy! (or maybe I have just been to lazy to post...) The last couple weeks have been laborous (is that a word?) Brady has put in some long labor hours on our landscaping, and we aren't finished yet! We had an unfortunate incident with our HOA (saying we had too many weeds) blah blah blah...so we decided to make them happy and fix our landscaping. We decided to put rock in the places that were troublesome. So, we did the measuring to see how much rock we needed to buy. The company told us that 80 cubic feet would equal 1 ton of rock. It turned out that our measurements brought us to buy 14 tons of rock. That's right 14 TONS! To make a really long story short, we ended up getting way too much because the stupid rock company wants to make sure people buy too much and make more money. Anyway, we ended up with about 6 tons of rock left over and didn't know what to do with it. So we thought to get rid of the grass strip between the sidewalk and street to save on water bills too. It turned out to be a lot more work than we planned, but it was worth it. It looks so much better. Now, we are planning to plant a few bushes and shrubs along that strip to make it look more complete. But this summer, we are DONE! SO, the moral of the story: buy only half of what the company recommends you buy. ;o)
That's a lot of rock!
Brady hard at work...the first shovel full of rock....only 1million to go!
Some of the sod we had to rip up and roll up. We put an add on craigslist for free sod, and SO many people called...i had no idea there were so many people looking for sod! We should have put a price on it, but we just wanted it gone
All along these grass strips were dead patches of grass because of bunny poop! Now, I don't know how this happens, but where ever we found dead grass, there was a pile of bunny poop right in the middle.
Along the side of the house going toward that back of the house
The back/side yard coming out from the garage. the trash bags are full of sod scraps
The other back/side yard...much improved! I wish i had taken before pictures. This side was REALLY bad. You could see weeds poking up taller than the fence!
3 comments:
Wow! That is a lot of rocks!! It looks great and you got a good workout in the process I am sure :)
Looks good! I hear you about the landscaping companies (maybe its just pioneer?) We got mulch for our backyard a few weeks ago. According to their calculations we needed 12-14... (I can't even remember the unit...) but we didn't want to buy that much, so we got 8 and it worked out great!
It does look so much better. That happened to us with the rock too. We bought 14 ton and had about 2 ton leftover. They said they would come back and get it and give us a credit. They came and got it, but we never got any money back. Go figure!
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