Will this landscaping project ever end? I told Laura that I think it’s great that we have the “Hong Kong” deadline, so we are forced to get this stuff finished. Today, we mulched, and mulched some more.

Yesterday, I spent the whole day putting together a new gutter down-spout and laying a bunch of landscape stone around the back side of the house. It’s tough to get those dudes level and straight, but the hard work with paver sand and a rubber mallet paid off.

Today, we scrambled to get a load of dirt put behind the landscape stones but were running out of dirt. Kurtz Brothers landscaping closed at 3 p.m. and it was 2:15! We hurried up and shoveled all the dirt out of the truck and then raced over to get more dirt. I raced home, we put it down, and then raced back to get the mulch we needed, just prior to 3! We could finally work at a less frenzied, slower pace. We put mulch over all the dirt we spread in between the house and the stones, and then around several trees.

As I type this, I realize that it doesn’t sound like a lot of work, but it took us about 7 hours, to get finished spreading dirt and mulch — and our backs are sore!

At Kurtz Brothers, I had to wait a little while for the front-end loader to come over to the truck and load up the mulch. For my wait, the guy gave me extra mulch. How much? TWICE as much! I got $120 bucks worth of mulch for $60 — you can’t beat it. That was a nice pick-me-up for the day, but boy are we glad we are finished. At least with this project . . .

Click on the picture of Laura for more photos of the project where we added more photos to the Landscape Project Album.

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