Instead of going on a fun vacation for Memorial Day weekend, Sam decided he had some studying to do. Lucky for me, when Sam has to study -- he usually does anything but. So our front area ( I can't call it a yard) FINALLY got done. About a year ago Sam dug up about a million brick things out of our back yard. I don't know why they were back there -- but there was a ton of them. So we decided it would be a GREAT idea to save them and use them for the front. When we moved in the lady had a bunch of flowers and rose bushes out there--- but it didn't look that great. So then we decided to pull everything out and put a tree in the center with all of our free bricks from the back. Sounds easy enough. Well the bricks have been sitting in a pile next to my front door ever since. We have dug up the flowers and weeds, lots of weeds and got it all cleared out about 3 times. But it never got done. I even asked for it to be done for my birthday back in Dec. Still not done. Finally a few days before Memorial weekend I got fed up and dug it up again and just started throwing bricks out. It didn't look great -- but it looked better then the weeds. Well THAT was finally the thing that got Sam to jump in and get this project done. It turned out to be a much bigger job than we had expected. The stupid bricks were so jacked up -- none of the edges were straight. So Sam had to chisel the sides straight and I would lay out the sand and place the bricks. It took ALLLLLLLLL day. But we worked together as a team and it was kinda fun. And we are very pleased with our work. A nice clean look with little maintenance. It may not look like much to you........... but it looks wonderful to me. :)
wish i had a "before" picture.... but just imagine the area full of weeds
wanted to include a picture of the backyard.... can you imagine all those bricks randomly around there?? Our back yard looks way better than it did before too. It's small but it's more than we have ever had before and we are grateful :).............
3 comments:
Wow it looks amazing, can u send Sam over to our house?
Hoooooray!!! April it looks great I can't wait to stop by and see it in person. Such a good feeling when a long overdue project gets completed, trust me we know all about that around this old house :)
That looks really good! I hope you had Shirley out helping you haul rock.
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