Life's a Stitch

It's amazing how much you can get done around the house when you have the time and nowhere to go. One major project was located literally around the house. We live on a small hillside lot above the beach. In keeping with our retirement plan, there is no lawn. We have a tiny front garden and two narrow strips of growing area in back of the house.

That wee little front garden yielded 12 giant bags of yard waste! C then pickaxed the roots out and sifted the dirt to remove a ton of rocks. His theory was there was an original rock garden that was covered over with dirt for a different look. Ready for planting we took two trips to nearby nurseries and exhausted our $200 of grocery store points in their garden centre.

I have a black thumb, but a good sense of design. Major kudos to C for his brawn, which produced this:

We especially like the two new trees, a weeping pussy willow and a Coral Japanese Maple, its red bark showing off in the winter.