and the new, improved one......
I still want to put a t valve in the secondary pump so that I can get one of those tacky pirates that come up out of a trunk for Max. He likes those things....
Grand Canyon.....
Austin Tx capitol
Flagstaff Arizona....
Outside of Santa Fe New Mexico.....
I didn't have a wedding cake- I had wedding watermelons!
Outside of Flagstaff Arizona ( I love that place!)
Sedona Arizona
The farm that we lived at when I first moved up here and where my wedding was held...
My baby shower- I was 7mos. pregnant at that time-
The Grand Canyon in winter....
There is a ton of plants in here- unfortunately, there is also a ton of weeds.....
View from up the stairs to the rock garden and pine trees. The stairs are only half out.
Here is an after. I weeded (and weeded and weeded etc...) a whole wheelbarrow full of weeds for the compost heap. You can see mulch again!
These are daylillies- they haven't flowered yet.I hope that the deer don't eat them before they get the chance to bloom. In the rock garden I have daylillies, sweet william, zebra grass, some decorative shrubbery, and some other assorted perennials. Oh, yes, and bowling balls. I have bowling balls planted in my gardens.
This is up those same steps. More railroad ties (rotting nasty things) have been removed. The pines have been trimmed up about 7 ft and the needles underneath have been removed. The fence that you see on the right is being put up all the way under those trees soon....
A gratuitous picture of one of my flowers....
The fully trimmed, pruned lilac bush hill. The myrtle will creep all the way around. I just need to add a few more stones to make the steps easier to go up and down.
Then there's this-
Here it is stained. It's not done yet- but it's close. The drawers go in all the way now because I planed them, then sanded, then planed, then sanded- you get the picture. I should be finished sometime next week- final clear coat and the hardware. I can't wait to get into the studio!
Here is the area directly across from the the above picture. This is still what I see when looking out to the back yard. The rocks are the bed edge, inside the bed is daylillies. I started pruning the apple tree a little, but much, much more needs to be done. There is a bench back there you can barely see in the picture.
This is opposite the apple tree, looking back at the house. The small wooden fence was put up by my husband. I would like to say it was to keep my son safe (that's an awful big drop) but no, I was the one who almost fell off the top -face first. At the bottom right hand corner is a large white concrete box. There are actually 3 of them, about 30 ft in all, and those are my vegetable planters. This year I have tomatoes, herbs, spinach and lettuce. Keeping them about 4 ft off the ground makes sure the stray animals don't eat my crops. Straight ahead in this picture is my "woods" and to the left is a footpath I cleared down to the woodpile and the river. It's pretty crude right now- it's just the bare ground and a brick outline ( I found the bricks on the property- there was a ton of them, which is suprising since I don't have a brick house)
After spending so much time looking out my living room window trying to figure out what I wanted to look at in my yard, I decided to go down to my riverbank and look back at my house. You know, to see what others see. I am so glad I did. I love my little house.
The above picture is from the banks- the below picture is from my marshland.
I know, it doesn't look like a lot different does it? But here is what I prunned and cut out of the stand of trees and shrubs on the right of this picture-
I probably will get another pile like that ( or larger) out in the next few days. I have a second big pile on the upper part of the hill too. We are also starting to weed whip the hill, plant new grass, mow, take out the rest of the rotting steps and build the fence (which is what some of the garage sale money is going toward) We have a lot of of work to do- and if it doesn't stop raining soon we will be very far behind.
This is rotting railroad ties that formed stairs down to the side yard. We have removed about half of them. (they circled all the way around the tree) The grass in the open part is sick and rather sad. Mostly wildflowers actually from the hippies. Since I want the boy to be able to play here I have to re seed. Past the grassy area is my woods. I want to remove 2 of the big pines so that the oak and the maple can grow bigger. Last year I removed a ring of horrid shrubbery at the edge of the grass and forest.
The half built fence and the overgrown rock garden. Between the garden and the fence is overgrown 3 ft tall grasses.
The back part of the side yard. The plants are daylillies planted by the builder of this house (not the hippies) Unfortunately, the pines have gotten so big that the sun doesn't reach the flowers anymore and they aren't doing so well. I have to prune and trim.
The view from the bench is one that I hacked out last year. All the shrubs which should have been 3 ft tall were about 10. I have more to go this year.
This is the view UP the rotten railroad tie steps. The fence will be finished this year- going all the way to the right past the pines and than closer to the house and the pines will be raised up to accomodate the fence.
after pics-
My husband cut down the abomination and built the railing instead.
This is the front- it gets no sun. I like the plantings, but need to work on the grass.
This is my Iris garden. One of the jobs I have to do on my list is finish painting that little finch that covers up the gas box. I started to late last fall and didn't get to the third panel.
These are the plantings in the very front. Daylilies grow to well up here. I have to thin the heard this season.
I just put in the new pine bark mulch. I like it very much.
I started with the front because I don't really have to do anything up here and the garage sale is taking all my time this week. I will post the pics of the back and the side yards- I have a lot of work to do there- a lot. It's really kind of scary.
