May 25: Done(ish)!

We’re down to the clean-up part of the front yard project. I’m all sliver-y from spreading barkdust and can hardly wait to take a shower and put on sliver-free clothes. So here, quickly, are a few snaps of the mostly finished product:

In this photo, we had left the periwinkle but excavated everything else from the yard. We then decided to transplant the periwinkle to the side yard, which allowed us to put the fountain closer to the front corner of the yard. It’s a bubbler—this photo doesn’t really do it justice. It really turned out nice, and makes a pleasant, relaxing sound. Not so relaxing, but amusing, is that the pleasant bubbly sound makes Vic do the I-gotta-pee dance.

Taken from the opposite direction (that’s the edge of the fountain on the far right), you can see the stone pathway leading to the front porch. We put ground cover between the stones but the bark makes it hard to see—anyway, they’re cute tiny-leafed plants and are supposed to spread like crazy. The kids think it’s awesome that they’re actually allowed to walk on them. Jack and Victor are putting the path lights together there on the front porch.

There are raised beds on either side of the path. I swept the sidewalk eleventy times this morning but you can’t tell. Stupid wind.

An aerial view of the yard. Guess who DIDN’T fall off the ladder while taking this picture! I know, I couldn’t believe it either.

And because we are who we are, there are little Mickey and Minnie statuettes near the giant birch tree in the side yard. You expected something else?