Finally, A New Flowerbed

The past few months we have been slowly working on a project...a new flowerbed in front of our house. Of COURSE we did the hardest part today with the temperature expected to climb to 103 degrees! Let me tell you...it was H-O-T!

Here is a progression of pics of the same area.

This photo was taken in May of 2005


We removed the retaining wall


Then Sam removed the grass


Sam used the shovel and cut up the hard chunks of dirt


Then dad and Sam "dumped" in about 10 bags of manure and 7 bags of topsoil


Dad and Sam spread the good stuff around. If anybody knows what a germ-o-phobe Carson is, you'll appreciate this. He was playing in the dirt and I told him he was playing with cow poo. He was pretty grossed out, even after washing his hands a dozen times!


Parker helped by standing around looking cute.


Our friend, Ryan Jones, helped Sam go to the sand and gravel place to pick out some awesome rocks. They were placed in Ryan's truck by a bobcat tractor, now the fun part, getting them into the flower bed. I didn't hear any complaining and they didn't even say one bad word during the process!


Here we are, the rocks successfully in place


It was SO hot, so we set the canopy up to give us some shade as we finished the project. It worked great!


Everything is planted, good thing too, I think we were both ready to pass out from the heat!


Wall rebuilt, flowers fertilized and watered, tools put away, canopy taken down, we are DONE!