Armstrong's in Boise: Yard Work Weekend

This weekend was so beautiful! It was 70 degrees on Friday and 65 degrees on Saturday (until the thunderstorms moved in late afternoon). It was so nice to be outside though and get a ton of yard work done. We spent all day Friday in the sun, and even got a sunburn. I am going to be planing a vegetable garden this year so I was prepping an area for it. I also went to a veggie garden 101 class on Saturday at a local store. We got some topsoil to fill in a bunch of holes in the backyard where Hazen dug up some tree roots and took the apple tree out. I also turned over the soil in the front planter box to get ready to plant flowers. Put down coffee grounds to try and keep the neighbors cat from pooping in it. We are going to be re-doing the back water feature area since Lucy can't seem to stay off it. We got a large pot that will have water coming up from the bottom and spilling over the top onto a circle of bricks. We had to go get the bricks this weekend. They are from a demolition company that has a bunch of bricks from taking down buildings. There was a huge pile of about 3 different kinds. We only needed one of the types and they definitely weren't the most abundant. It was a scavenger hunt for 250 bricks. Very exhausting. We woke up Saturday pretty sore but decided to go at it again. We got some plastic fencing to put up around my garden to see if that will keep Lucy out of it. Yet to be determined. Hazen decided that he needs to beat "Corner Guy" with his lawn this year so we laid a bunch of topsoil in the front yard to even out all the hills and valleys. This process is much more tedious than I expected. You cant just lay down a bunch of dirt and call it good. The thunderstorms came in last night and I'm not sure how much grass seed is left and how much got washed away. In the end though, I'm sure it will look better than before.

Garden area, doesn't have fence up yet