6-25 Doing Yard Work

Larry and I are not really the type of people who do much yard work, we do mow and keep things looking nice but we don't normally get into things like landscaping. I have talked before about Larry being part of The Home Depot Seeds Program, this month one of the offerings was Easy Flex Aluminum Landscape Edging. It came in three different colors silver, black and bronze. He selected the black and bronze to review. It arrived the other day and we didn't have anything on today's agenda so we decided to install the bronze edging around the front oak tree. We started early this morning before it got too hot. First we  measured out how far around the tree we wanted it. We had 24' feet to work with. Once this was done we dig a trench to put the edging in. We used a pick to dig with and then used a small garden spade to dig the dirt out of it. When the trench was finished Larry put the edging in. The edging came in (4) 6' pieces so Larry had to bend each piece to fit it in the trench. After the edging was in the trench Larry hammered in the (12) 10" spikes that were included. Then we put dirt around the edging. It took us an hour and a half. Next Larry filled in a hole in a oak tree in the backyard with foam to help prevent it from rotting. After resting a little we decided to go to Walmart for some mulch to go in the edging. We picked up 5 bags of black mulch and 10 bags of dirt. We knew we didn't need 5 bags of mulch but we wanted to get enough for the black edging we're planning to work on tomorrow. We needed dirt to go around the edging and we have been meaning to get some more dirt for the side of the house. When we returned to the house we spread the mulch around the tree and the dirt on the side of the house. While we were working outside Flo hung out in Larry's workroom where it was cooler. Afterwards we went inside and cooled off and had lunch.

Digging the trench around the tree

Bending the landscape edging

Putting the edging in the trench

Hammering in the spikes

Putting the mulch around the tree

The finished product

Spreading dirt on the side of the house

The hole in the oak tree

Stuffing paper in the tree before the foam

Filling the hole with foam

The hole is full of foam

In the afternoon we relaxed. I worked on The Dog Park puzzle and Larry read. After dinner we watched a documentary called Women on Death Row, it was about four women on death row in prison. It was a good documentary. Then we watched a movie called Butter. It starred Jennifer Garner, Yara Shahidi, Ty Burrell and Olivia Wilde. It was a comedy about doing carvings out of butter. It wasn't that good but it was entertaining. We had a relaxing evening.