Jim Goings

In the showdown of all showdowns, we took on our back yard and kicked it’s butt!   I hired Mark to come over and help us.   First up was a trip to the dump where we unloaded a van full of crap we had sitting around in the yard.  Then, Mark ran the rototiller most of the day while I trimmed the trees – all 4 of them.  Mark ended up tilling about half of the yard which is awesome.  We placed some edging and moved some of the rocks into the border areas.  Of course, the rocks were from the other half of the yard where we dug them up a few weeks ago.  They were all muddy, so we spend about 2 hours washing rocks.  Yes, we washed rocks.  The results are great, but we have a long way to go.

Mark finishing up the tilling.  Now we have a mostly level yard ready for sod!

We covered the tilled earth with plastic to prevent anything from growing.  In a few weeks we’ll plant sod.

I cut down the tree what was growing in the middle of the two pine trees shown here.  I also pruned the weird tree you can just see on the far right.

If you look towards the house, you can see a huge pile of limbs and leaves from the maple tree sitting in front of the window.  The foreground shows some of the trimmings from the other trees.