2nd stage of yard work

Mark has successfully removed the bushes from the side of the house. Now he will remove the stumps and then we are going to transplant a couple of other items to this area, so that we are not losing all of the vegetation around our home. A lot of work by Mark and NOPE I did not help with cutting, but I did move some smaller branches of these bushes.

With Land comes WORK!!

We have had our home now for a year. With this almost one acre comes work. Mark wanted to have some land so that he could do what he wanted to accomplish. WELL, with this land comes work. Mark loves being outside and working. The work will be on going all the time, but as we go, we try to see what it might look like in the future. Mark is cutting down the bushes on the Stoker side of our home. We will pull out the bushes and their roots and then we are thinking we will French Drain around the house and then we will replant plants in this area that will not grow as quickly as they have. The first set of pictures is when we first moved in. We trimmed the bushes back straight across and with the second set of pictures you can see that the bushes have grown quite a bit. Should be fun and it will look nicer when we have fully accomplished what we want to do.

Round 2 for Mark's POND

As you can see, Mark is putting together another option for his pond idea. He really does DO A GREAT JOB on the projects that he does. You can see in the previous postings what he was thinking about, BUT, this one has more thought and a bit more easier to keep up. This is Mark's reward for still having to cut the grass with a push lawn mower. The pond will about 3 feet deep and Mark is going to place some heavy duty black plastic in the bottom of the pond and then make a ledge around the entire pond, so if I want plants in the pond, then we can do that. The paving stones going across is going to be able to support a riding lawn mower that Mark will get eventually. The project will be completed by sometime in the spring of 09.