We used to have a very ugly cedar split rail fence in front of our house. Many times, we would drive home from somewhere, or get up in the morning, and have to go put the rails back in because they had fallen out. Ugly, ugly, ugly. My dad stopped by one day and we decided to rip it out. So we did. That was two years ago. The fence separated our lawn from a parking area in front of our house. Since we removed the fence, the lawn has been growing further and further into the parking area. It's been bugging Scott, so he decided to do something about it. Last week, we hauled rocks in from the gravel pit, dug up the lawn and made a flower bed. Scott sprayed roundup on it and we let it sit for a few days to let the grass die.
This week, we finished it. We decided we really should till it up, so Scott removed all of the rocks (we don't ever do anything the easy way) and tilled away. After he put all of the rocks back, it was time to fill it in. It took one pickup load of dirt that Scott shoveled by hand (plus 35 bags of topsoil from Home Depot because the shoveling by hand got really old), a bunch of new plants and some that I transplanted and 15 bags of mulch.
We'll see how it holds up this winter, or if the snowplows annihilate it like they do our mailbox every year.
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