Once the new foundation and drainage was completed, there was the matter of “cleaning up” the surrounding ground as well as replacing a few of the wall boards that had begun to…
Category: Landscaping
A Little Beautification Work
This weekend I arrived at the house late Saturday after a week of work done by a contractor. I’ll post about that separately, there’s a lot to it. And, this was the…
Trench Digging
For the past two weekends I’ve done almost nothing but dig and fill in a trench. Said trench runs 75′ from the house to the shed in order to allow me to…
Bachelor Pad Arrives
What you see here is the gravel pad for a shed. The running joke has been that this is the “Bachelor Pad” as I may actually sleep in the shed occasionally during…
Art? Or Eyesore?
Mostly just kidding here, but our old TV antenna with years of vines on it is sort of neat. The vines were cut at the ground long ago, so there’s no new…
Belleview in Bloom
A few of the spring perennials that are currently in bloom at Belleview. There are more that will come up later and I’ll try to post the progression to see how things…
Home Work: Day 1 of 6
Winter is finally <?> behind us and I’m taking a week off from work to see if I can make some progress on Belleview. Not much was accomplished over the winter other…
“Game Of Thorns” Trees
I found some strange and dangerous trees on the property. They’ve got these crazy long pointy things – I guess you could call them thorns, but they are more like daggers. About…
Initial Efforts: Electric, Internet and Water
The day after the closing I scheduled to have electricity transferred to us and turned back on, internet installed, and a few contractor visits for the most immediate repairs. The electric is…