June 03, 2019
Good morning crew,
This weekend the wife and I completed another step in our on-going landscaping project, and what I am beginning to understand about landscaping is that is never ends. We started this effort three summers ago and our initial list of jobs to get done still isn't finished. Worse, it is growing. Every time I take a look around the property I find something new that needs taking care of. I'm starting to get afraid to go outside.
But there was a big strip of rotting mulch and weeds along the back of the house that was a real eyesore, and with this little family gathering coming up I didn't feel like I could leave it. So at a bright and early 10 o'clock Saturday morning it was off to the home improvement store to buy a few hundred dollars worth of stone. Since it rained all Saturday afternoon and evening we had to wait until yesterday to do all the work. That included digging out the rotting mulch and weeds, leveling the area, putting down a weed barrier and filling it all in with the stone. That and a few other little chores that needed to be done so the family doesn't think we're squatting in an abandoned house when they come over next week, and we put in an 8 hour day. These little chores really eat up the weekends.
It almost makes me miss the condo days.
Laugh it up,
Joe
joe@gophercentral.com
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