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July 17, 2004

Yardwork today

Arggghhh. I just wrote the most lovely story about how hard WonderHusband and WonderSon worked to create a flagstone path from the sidewalk to the pond.

I hit some kind of evil key combination and it all went away.

So here it is, without the nice embellishments, etc.

Last week, John and Andy worked hard to make the area under the Oak Tree (capitalized because it is a BIG oak tree) look nice by mulching the area (a really large area - probably 30 feet in diameter) under the tree, where nothing dared to grow.

The front yard, as a result, is taking on a more and more park-like look.

There is a path of no grass between the front porch and the pond, so John thought we might go to Home Depot and buy some pavers and make a path.

So there we went. But the concrete pavers left me cold - they had no soul!

I managed to convince the good man to take me Mt. Olivet Stone, a lovely stone yard outside of town where we have puchased some tons of Colorado river rock, etc, to build our pond and waterfall.

They are nice stone people. If you live in the Kansas City area, I highly recommend them. Their prices are fair, and they are friendly.

Anyway, we bought about 400 pounds worth of flagstone - enough for a decent size split path - we may buy some more, to extend the path around the spruce tree to the beginning of the train tunne.

The flagstones cost less than the nice pavers at Home Depot - 16 cents a pound - we spent $64. The fake flagstones at Home Depot would have cost us about $90 for the same amount of coverage.

And then, SuperSon, Andy, unloaded the Aztec and built the path himself - making it nicer than anything I imagined (thanks, Andy!).

I spent the rest of the day planting plants to grow around and between the flagstones.

I planted 16 plants (all perennials of sorts), but I am going to have to buy at least 3 times as many to continue to naturalize the area.

I planted coreopsis, mazus, Irish Moss, and a couple of other low, spreading perennials whose names I've forgotten.

I am tired now. I forced John to go out in search of food for us.

Posted by Beth at July 17, 2004 05:26 PM