6-26 More Yard Projects

Doing more yardwork

This morning we installed the black landscape edging around an oak tree in the backyard, took us about an hour and a half. We started out by measuring how far out from the tree we wanted to go and then we dug a small trench around the tree. Larry started digging the trench, a couple of times he hit large rocks that he had to dig out, when he got tried I took over and I was lucky, I didn't hit any rocks. Next Larry put the edging in the trench, we slide the 4 pieces of edging together instead of holding the pieces while hammering the spikes in the ground. Once the edging was in the trench Larry hammered the 12 spikes in the ground and then we put the dirt around the edging. When this was finished we put the mulch around the tree. While we were installing the edging Flo stayed inside to keep cool. 

The black landscape edging we installed

Digging the trench

Digging out the loose dirt

Putting the edging in the trench

Sliding the edging pieces together

The landscaping edging in the trench

The finished project

The next project Larry wanted to work on was changing out the sprinkler heads on the side of the house to rotating heads. Weeks ago he changed all the heads in the front to rotators but since the side yard is on the same zone as one of the fronts yards the side yard has been getting too much water, by using the same style of head it should correct this. The heads on the side were lower than he liked so before he replaced the heads he wanted to raise the sprinkler. He dug around the sprinkler down to the pipe then he removed the dirt so it wouldn't get in the exposed water pipe. The next step was to remove the sprinkler and put an extension on it, before doing this he had to cut the extension down to size. Once the extension was on the sprinkler he replaced the head with a rotating head. Then he put the sprinkler back on the pipe. The last step was to cover up the pipe and sprinkler. He only had one extension so we had to go to The Home Depot to get a few more. We left Flo at home considering it was way too hot for her in the car. We ended up buying ten extensions because Larry will probably put extension on some other sprinklers. After lunch we went back to work, we got all five heads to a height we were happy with. I shouldn't say we considering Larry did all the work but I did hold an umbrella over him to give him shade, I also helped with tools and such. Flo stayed inside the whole time we were outside. After finishing this project Larry adjusted the heads and they worked perfect. Once this was done we went inside and cooled down.

The sprinkler without a head on it

Digging the sprinkler out of the ground

Removed the sprinkler from the pipe

The sprinkler with the new head on it

The rest of the day we relaxed. I worked on the Dog Park puzzle and did a little laundry. Larry read and Flo kept cool. In the evening we watched our weekly shows Endeavor and Tunnel. We also watched a new series on PBS called Dancing on the Edge. We had another busy day of yardwork. LIFE IS GOOD!!!!