September 18-19, 2010

This is the last weekend before our housewarming party, and we had one last major yardwork project to complete: moving all of the rocks that we had collected from the backyard and dump them into the front flower beds. UGH. Not the way I wanted to spend me weekend, but I also never want to touch one of those stupid rocks ever again! However, it does make me happy to know that we were able to reuse all of the rock instead of paying for someone to remove it. It also makes me happy to know that the "deweeding flowerbed project" is finally completed (at least, I hope it is.) Here's a quick rundown of what we've done to try and kill the monster weeds in the flower beds:

1) Start of project - Chop weeds flush to ground (removing 5+ feet tall vegetation)
2) Two weeks later - Chop weeds flush to ground (removing 2.5 feet tall vegetation)
3) A couple of weeks later - Dig up root system to weeds (back to 1-2 feet tall vegetation) and remove 8-10 inches of soil from flowerbeds (soil goes into the backyard to fill firepit hole)
4) This week - Fill both flowerbeds in with approx. 1500 lbs of rock from the backyard, divided

So anyway, we did it. The rock is moved.  Neither of us took photos of it because, well, it would have been pictures of us holding rocks and you can probably imagine that on your own.  

We also tried to remove the thorn bush that is starting to regrow at the front corner of our house (the same one that we removed in July.)  First, Mike tried a shovel. Then a pick axe. Then swearing at it. I tried shaking my fist at it. We finally gave up and have concluded that we will probably have to tie this thing up to a truck and pull it out.  However, there's a good chance that the thorn bush is cozied up with our house's foundation, and pulling it out might take our house with it.  Looks like I'm stuck with trimming it back for now.

I'll end this entry with one of the only photos we took this weekend. We had a lovely Sunday morning on the beach with the dogs.  The weather has been funky lately with fall approaching, and we aren't sure how many more warm days we have left.  We were happy that this one landed on the weekend for us to enjoy.

Nantasket Beach morning walk, 9.19.10