at the beginning of this year I was a little concerned about having a lot of free time . . . . given the fact that my second post is just a little under six months later, free time hasn't really been as abundant as I thought it would be!
So what exactly have I been doing to fill my time??? That is a fine question! Time flies and this year certainly is no exception! We are closing in on the sixth month of 2012! Recently we have been doing a lot of work in our yard! Next year (2013) we will be in our house 10 years and although we have worked on landscaping through the years there are a few projects that a lingering that we have been pushing along to get finished up! I personally love working in the yard but I do look forward to the day (hopefully soon) that we can sit back and enjoy our hard work!
Our current projects have been a new, pretty good sized flower bed, expanding the back driveway to clean up the edge of it, a new, pretty good sized flower bed at the back of the property and in front of the picnic area and. . . . the "dry creek."
Last Spring we had a lot of rain and our toilets began to gurgle. After testing all the drain downspouts my husband and his dad discovered that one of the pipes leading from a downspout to the lake had collapsed. They dug it up and replaced it with a pvc pipe straight out the back yard but now where to go with the pipe? I had been telling Mike for quite sometime (telling and sending pictures to drop hints) that I would love to have a dry creek! After much deliberation, discussion, etc. we decided to run a "dry" creek along the back of the property to use to drain the water from the new pipe from the downspout. Let me remind you that this project started last Spring and has included a lot of tilling, a lot of shoveling and a lot of hauling dirt from the back yard to the front yard. The dirt hauled to the front yard has worked out nicely and that dirt combined with some dirt that Mike's Uncle Mitch brought to us helped to level out the front yard. The area was seeded by Mike and his Dad a few weeks ago and the grass is coming in nicely!
Mike and I layed the pipe from the downspout to the end of the creek and I filled the dirt back in on top of the piping. I really did feel bad filling the dirt back in after all the digging that Mike had done on the dry creek. We are at a small standstill right now as we are trying to find the pond liner that we are needing. Once we find the liner hopefully the creek will come together quickly!
Other than working in the yard I did take tennis lessons which I really enjoyed! They even talked me into coming back for advanced classed. It is really amazing what you can do after just a couple of lessons!
As to what else has consumed my time so far this year I'm really drawing a blank! I guess I will have to do a better job of keeping up with this blog to keep track of what I've been up to!
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