Laying these edging stones is not rocket science but it takes time. The first row always sucks and takes forever. It was literally one full day just to get the first row laid so we didn't take any pictures that day. Sure we ran to Lowes to get some plants and skip out on the hot part of the day but we were still leveling at 8:30 with the flood lights on and that counts as a full day.
So here the first full row is and nice and level, back filled and fully stabilized ready for the second row to start.
Bam, no waiting for the blog readers. Instant gratification. Here the second row is. It only took about 2 hours to get down. Then came the fun part. All that dirt that didn't go back in the drain had to go some where. That somewhere was the flower bed area we've now defined. Except all the clay we pulled out of the corner of the house. That all got tossed into the truck to dump on a unsuspecting country road somewhere. We got it all moved, level some spots in the yard and gave a full wheel barrow full to my neighbor since he said he needed some.
As you can see from the smile we enjoy this part. It means we are basically done and all the neighborhood people will quite sneering as they walk by and start actually speaking to us again. Mandy is planting and transferring our newly purchased plants.
It was all going pretty smooth. We were able to go and buy a cubic yard of mulch to cover this side and some other spots on the other side that needed dressed up some. We didn't to plant the smaller flower until the much was down with the fear of killing them. So we took our time. I was water our new flower beds and Mandy was patting the last bit of mulch around her last marigold. Then drop, drop, gush! The flood gates opened and we got soaked. My truck was in the yard with the windows down so I jumped in it and moved it and rolled those up. Mandy headed for the garage. I got my rain jacket to clean up the tools etc. It was at this point, we decided to call it an evening at 9pm in the rain.
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