Sunday, April 3, 2011

Home Projects

This weekend, Clint had the lovely projects of fixing my truck AGAIN and he really wanted to relay the terracotta pavers out front since they were all wibbly wobbly and easily to trip over.


It felt good to do some manual labor and it was fun...until the next morning waking very stiff and sore.

As you can see the reason for the uneven pavers was this giant root that had snaked its way under.



The picture of Clint sitting with the root infront of him was taken right after he fell backwards trying to pull it out of the ground. Thankfully he fell on the pulled up pavers and didn't get hurt. But he did have to hack his way through a big root.

We aren't completely done, but I thought I'd show you the progress. The difficult time we'd had was in the last tiles. They just didn't want to fit! So we had to go out and buy a new solution, which were these little grey tiles.



We are also going to make a little planter by the fence and continue the grey pavers along the fence line.
And we're going to plant some other plans along the fence that is to the right of our walk way to our front door. We also want to put some hanging plants and pots on the fence rail to make it look like someone actually lives here. We also are going to hopefully plant Jasmine next to the pilars so they can grow up the pilar and smell good.





I'll keep you all posted with our progress.

2 comments:

Jeanette said...

Hey it's looking great! And anything the color green is looking great to us right now as well. We're finally getting some spring weather--though we had a hale storm yesterday!

Sara said...

looks like a big job! and that root was giant! like the improvements that you are doing. :)