Filling That Bucket - Yard Work!

One of the things that made it on my Summer Bucket List was Yard Work.  Various, plentiful, sweat-inducing, dirt-under-your-nails-smells-so-good-after-a-too-long-winter-and-too-short-spring, transforming Yard Work. 

The garden needed more sun so the guys took to trimming some bushes as well as taking down the neighbor's tree (he didn't mind the extra firewood).

 

A very kind friend came a few different times over the summer to help me replant and rebuild the front landscaping for the house. Check out these before and after shots with plants repositioned from her yard and ours. What a blessing!

 

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(My rock toting crew with their *machine* for making the work a bit lighter)

 

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(This nasty rock wall took some real muscle to clear)

 

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 And, with that landscaping looking so great, it only makes sense to put in a new walkway to match. :)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A killer deal on a new driveway...we couldn't pass that up.

 

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Once we saw that lovely new driveway, we had new motivation to dig out the pieces of siding the previous owners had stashed under the barn and give one side a bit of a face lift.

 

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 More plants needed a home so we worked to put in another garden bed along the street side.

 

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And, of course, the vegetable garden needs attention as the weeks move on. Verity is a great help keeping it weeded and picked.

  

 

 

 

And the harvest has been great!

 

 

 I've so enjoyed cleaning up, trimming, planting, and reshaping our yard this year. It's so rewarding to see the outside of this old, dear house come back to life in bits and pieces. We still have more work ahead of us, but it's a labor of love, so we don't mind at all.  These beautiful blooms that greet us through the summer months make it all worth the effort.