ROCKY HILL

Saturday morning we loaded the truck with stumps and roots and headed to the Raritan Recycling Center to dump it. Then we got back and loaded the truck with garbage that has been laying around outside and took that to the Hunterdon County transfer station. YAY! Two more truckloads of junk is gone. It stinks because it took up the entire morning because the line at the transfer station is ridiculously long even if you get there early but it is great that the yard has two less truck loads of garbage laying around.

When we got back Tommy got the rest of the stumps off the front yard and I planted the rest of the junipers on the hillside. Then Tommy brought me scoops of the river rocks we had plucked out of some loads of soil we got for free and but them at the bottom of the hillside for me to lay out under the junipers. I did just that while Tommy shredded and moved some of the "garbage" leftover from the sawmill. Anything small enough was shredded and the rest is on the large firewood pile in the backyard. Laying those rocks out is quite a bit of work on that hill. It might not seem very steep but it is a workout. It was great when Tommy was done with his work and we could pick out the size rock we needed from the pile, put it in the bucket of the kubotka, and then place them where we needed to directly out of the bucket. I think it is looking pretty good so far.

DAFFODILS

I took the day off of work today. I didn't accomplish all that much though. I took some daffodils that were growing in the woods and transplanted them to the flower bed along the driveway. We will be covering where they were with quite a bit of dirt and it would have been such a shame to destroy them. After the daffodils were planted I started putting some of the woodchips from what we chipped last weekend on the flowerbed up the driveway, but didn't get too far before Tommy got home. We then took a drive to a Greenhouse & Nursery that I found on craigslist that has very good prices, actually AMAZING prices, on bushes and trees. We were able to pick up three white birch trees that we have been looking for and 22 gold tipped junipers for the hillside. YAY! When we got back we dug a big hole next to the porch and we planted all three of the white birch together. LOVE IT! Then Tommy started moving back some of the leftover logs on the frontyard from when the sawmill was here and I planted about 6 of the junipers before it was too dark for us to work outside anymore...

ROOTS

I am on travel for work so Tommy is was on his own last night and again tonight. He has been working on tearing all the relentless roots and vines out of the backyard with the kubotka...

Miss you!!!

PLUM TREES

After work tonight we moved the two plum trees that we got on the auction last year to the front of the house... basically put them on the hillside that we created on the right side of the house. We were a little concerned that they would block the house, but once we just did it we decided that we love it. We are planning some other plants for the hillside, we just need for lowes to get another shipment of them...

LANDSCAPING

Finally took some pictures of the landscaping we started on the left side of the driveway. The deer have already started to eat the burning bushes but we have a home remedy that will hopefully work. We bought a blender and mixed eggs and cayenne pepper with water and sprayed it on the bushes... I don't think they have been eaten anymore... hope it works...