Yard Work Frenzy

Wow, what a day. I got up a little after 7:00 a.m. (because I had to have Tyler to the groomer's by 8:00). My plan then was to run a bunch of errands, but I got sidetracked by some rocks. (Does that mean I got side rocked?)

For many years the border or edging of the pond garden was landscaping ties. But they are old and rotting, sinking into the ground, and falling apart. I didn't take a 'before' picture this year, but I have this one from last year, which gives an idea what the landscaping ties looked like.

I had been thinking this year I wanted to pull them up and put in something nicer, but hadn't decided what yet. I knew I'd like rocks, but when I hunted for the flat rocks I edged the pond with, I remember them being hard to find, and expensive.

While driving Tyler to the groomer's I passed a mulch and self-storage place, the same one where we have our storage unit. And what to my incredulous eyes should appear but pallets of large, flat rocks.

I stopped on my way back and inquired about them, and it was great - big flat field stones, a pallet full, for $50. I said, yeah, I'm on it! I believe that to be a very good price for rocks, if you must buy them. Which I must, as I have no big property to dig them up from.

Better yet, they delivered them a few hours later!

So I started this.

So my afternoon consisted of hauling more than 40 of those rocks over to the pond area (there are still about 20 more laying in the driveway where we had them dumped; and the Dread Revered helped me by carrying a lot of them); pulling up the landscaping ties and tossing them out of the way; raking out all the dead leaves from the neglected bed; arranging the new rock wall in something like an aesthetically pleasing way; cleaning the pond pump filter; and ... I think that was about it.

For now it looks like this.

I'm pretty happy with this. No, I'm ecstatic with this. So it was a pretty good day. And now I'm so sore and tired I can barely move. But it was worth it.