Blooming tulips!
Trees in the ground!
Rolled sod!
The landscaper has been busy! And tonight when Lazy Gnome gets home, she will probably be busy herself spreading the mulch. The landscaper is going to dump it all over the area of the yard where the sod is currently rolled up--because by then it will be all laid out!!--and LG will be pilling mulch into her wee wheel barrel and trucking it carefully on the paving stones only--NOT across the fresh lawn--and setting it out over the beds...
This is not true Lazy Gnome activity, but at some point Lazy Gnome has to take more care over the costs and turn into Cheap-o Gnome. She has been doing some serious training to get her body into shape--lots of crazy Ashtanga Yoga which might just kill her...the entire right side of her body feels like it might just fall off!!
Anyway, the yard is really starting to take shape now....plus, the landscaper re-set paving stones where the settling of the area around the foundation was causing them to split between the rows, and the back door area where the ground beneath the stones had simple eroded due to all the moisture, combined with the apparently poor backfilling after the foundation work. LG wasn't around to see if they had tampered it back in, but luckily the landscaper was able to fix it. This particular landscaper guy, Chris, is really good to deal with. Very calm, asks lots of questions, explains things, takes the time to go over things, and has really done a fantastic job with the paving stones....wow. (The guy here with him yesterday was part of the tear-down crew last summer...he remembers the rain reallly well! And apparently because of the old deck, they had lots and lots of flat tires from old nails....oops.)
Anyway, looking forward to that hard labour after work!
LG
"The labour we delight in physics pain." ~~ William Shakespeare, Macbeth
"Work is the curse of the drinking classes." ~~ Oscar Wilde
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