A Little Landscaping
April 7th, 2008 . by JoyceThis past Saturday, my husband and our youngest son worked to spread a couple loads of sand and gravel over a drainage ditch (now with a drainage pipe underneath) at the end of our driveway. The ditch had become unsightly with blackberry brambles constantly growing up, and volunteer bushes and trees doing their bit to return the driveway to its original status as part of the forest.
Seth is doing his bit to help Daddy spread the sand/gravel.
Rick took down some low-hanging branches at the end of the driveway at the same time.
Here is as finished as it got on Saturday. The next step is to spread topsoil over this, and plant some grass. This is a big improvement I think. It looks cleaner, and we have better visibility at the end of the driveway. Nice work guys!
Hi, thanks for visiting me! I came back to visit your list of favorite chocolates and just had to say too how beautiful your property looks! And how nice it is that your youngest was so helpful to his dad! You’d mentioned my banner and I love it too, wish I could claim credit for it but it was actually designed for me by the very talented young author of Criz’s Cat Sanctuary
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big stuff! good job, guys
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My boys would have such a party with that dirt pile!
I love the look of your place. We have tried several times to move to a more country setting and the doors have always been shut up tight.
Looking at your pictures I can almost smell the fresh piney air. I’m envious. I hope you don’t mind.
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Hi Joyce, thanks so much for your comment. When I read it I wanted to respond back…sometimes walking on tippy toes is a flag for autism. There is one end of the spectrum called Asperger’s Syndrome, high verbal, very bright individuals who are a bit socially inept. I think my son has Asperger’s. Other people who might have/had it include Einstein and some think Bill Gates
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Everything looks so different without the ditch! I remember sitting in the ditch watching slugs move around in the grass when I was younger than Seth. and I remember thinking that the pit had snakes in it. Are you guys going to put anything in that area?
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Cassie, Thank You. We are so thankful to have our beautiful home on this property. Rick built the house almost twenty years ago. It has been an ideal location for the children to play, work, and grow up.
Kerri, don’t be jealous, just come and visit! We’ll have a barbeque, invite over friends, and you all will have a good time.
Laura and Sarah, didn’t you kids have a wonderful time using that ditch as a fort and hiding place when you were little? Lately, it had become so overgrown, and Daddy wanted there to be better visibility of the road, so Goodbye, ditch!