Here are a few shots of the property at the end of March, I will be taking photo’s for end of April as well so you can see the massive difference over just one month. I took these pictures back at the end of march, so that is when this post is dated, however I added it on April 27th.
New Sidewalk — The back yard was getting very muddy to walk between the back door and the driveway so we solved the problem by laying in some concrete pavers and a retaining wall. It was a tremendous amount of work, I believe the soil is 60%+ rock in this area which makes for much labor. In order to lay out the pavers we had to dig out the soil beneath which was filled with huge chunks of bluestone, and I do mean huge. Some of the pieces of blue stone weighed as much as 50 pounds. Then we leveled out a lot of gravel and then leveling sand on top of that. The retaining wall was just simple stacked pavers. I used a hammer drill to drill through all but the very top concourse of bricks and then we drove rebar stakes down into the earth about 2 feet to keep it in place. Over the last couple of winters the sidewalk and the retaining wall have held up great!
The Back .40: This is the back yard of the property, beyond the ‘developed zone’. It’s probably closer to .60 acre, but I like the ‘back 40’ comparison better.
Mom’s planter, we gave the planter a special name for my Mom and I’m going to be sending her photo’s from time to time so she can see what I planted in there for her. It should be quite nice if all goes well! Notice how the lawn looks in this photo.
Barn side yard – If you look at the ground in this phot the ground color is all moss growing there on the surface. This tree is kind of nice(it is still in winter mode) but I plan on trimming the bottom branches a bit so it’ll be nice and open instead of ground cover.
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