Adventures at The Bunny Manse

We've been enjoying the spring, not-spring, spring weather and getting our yard in order for the year. We basically create something new each season or so, one day the whole thing will be done and lovely and just what we want.  Today, there are pockets of magic.  Like my roses  From eye level  And from above!  I finally planted blueberries - and forsythia as our yard somehow had none. Harris spent an entire afternoon re-setting these curbstones that had sunk over decades.  Little Pebble Creek is filling in nicely. That's one pretty drainage ditch!  The front yard bench near the roses.  Otherside of the front yard And PLUM TREES to compliment the peach trees! Our Orchard is starting to take shape.  it's all pieces here and there because we do have this whole set of girls who need... quite a lot of our attention. We're happy to oblige most days.  Easter...

We decided we wanted the front yard and porch to be finished. Like, for real playful, beautiful, and not on our mind. To do that, we needed to finish little pebble creak as well as find pavers to make a complimentary walkway. And what to do about the grass. Just...start over . Harris and our neighbor Adam rented a sod cutter and cut the top layer of dirt off of the front yard. Then they picked up the chunks of sod and dirt and grass and loaded it into the back of the truck over and over and over again taking about four tons of dirt and junk to the county dump. Dad and I took a good load or two ourselves during their short visit while Mom hung out with Margot and Marianne. We were going to lay sod but sort of...got distracted. We decided instead to throw out some lime, fertilizer, and seed and see what happens.

The South Lawn (aka the other lot, aka our yard) suffered benign neglect for at least the past 10 years. The previous owners had a service that came twice a month to mow and tidy up,  but they were not doing anything else. Last year, we had a service for the same thing. This year is different. So far, we've created the rose garden. Here we have deeply scented roses from Lowes and a climbing Joseph's Coat from Witherspoon. A cedar shrub was growing out of this little strip of land. Every time we opened the gate we got a hand or face full of prickles. It was quite unpleasant.  Our best guess is that at some point there was sewage work done that required digging up a portion of the patio. There is a cleanout in the middle of this bed of rock. prior to the pretty rock it was rock covered over in dirt and brush and grass. I spent a lazy couple of hours with the hose washing the rock and removing the mud so that we could put in new rock and stop the growth there. We also h...

We approach ten years together and three in the bunny manse. Those three years have been spent walking from car to house via a muddy little path. At some point I noticed the grass was always dead ~ sure sign of buried stuff- and started digging around uncovering four circular pavers and a hole where the fifth should be. But no more! Over chat Friday l says, hey, why don't we build a walkway, so we went to the despot and picked up supplies on Saturday while the elder was at a parents night out. We used the pavers that I literally bought 4-5 years ago off a neighbor who had extra. We moved them from one yard to another.  I know. Glamour. Little fever dream toddler wanted to play in the much a little.  Pop Pop came over and helped Madeline with her hustle.  When Harris got home, he added sand and leveled My job was to come up with the pattern. I laid out a couple on the cement walkway until I decided this one was best.  An...