After a crazy warm weekend in February when I took advantage of the weather and routed 600+ board-feet of lumber (no, don’t ask me how much of it’s been primed, painted, and put on walls), I decided to take advantage of the early spring weather that started a few weeks later and get some landscaping done. Looking back on it now, I’m realizing I got a hell of a lot done.
- Repurposed some scrap pegboard in the garage for use in the basement workroom, freeing up the library in the process
- Painted the full bathroom, after removing towel bars and the green trim tile around the shower
- Landscaped the east lawn near the house, partly to fix some erosion issues, and partly to use up the remaining blocks from the central ring/firepit work last year
- Ripped out both the bubble tree and the umbrella tree from the front yard
- Divided the massive hosta in the front bed into five smaller hostas (hostae?) and sprinkled them along the side yard
- Unified the two flower beds in the front of the house
- Trimmed back both the wygelia in the front and back yards
- Cut back and later ripped out the yew bushes in front of the house
- Replaced the mailbox with a new mailbox and post to better support the clematis that were found in the back yard and transplanted
- Powerwashed and painted the front of the house
- Put a new ring in around the magnolia tree for a future hosta garden (and to make mowing around the thing easier)
Here’s a picture of the front of the house from when I moved in:
And here’s how it looks as of June:
At this point, the only real tasks remaining in the front yard are to replace the edging, take down the basketball hoop, and have the pine tree on the corner of the lot dropped and the stump ground up, which means that finally, after two years of saying it, I can focus my efforts on the back yard.
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