Father's Day with a Shovel and a Dream
A reminder to hug your Dad. He's also the landscaper.
So. Here’s the scene:
Wife and child are away for the weekend. We’ve already celebrated father’s day so the day is mine. What to do?
Brunch? Nope. It’s boring eating alone
Golf? Too expensive and besides, it’s for wannabe rich guys.
Nap? Not feeling it.
Dig the backyard up in 80 degree heat at high noon?
Hell. Ya!
I’ve been meaning to do this for a long time. Over the years, there were some patio stones at the bottom of the stairs. I think. They were nowhere to be found. I knew they were in there - I just had to find them. It was like search for buried treasure without a map.
So I got out my trusty lawn edger and dug around until I found them. Turns out there was 9 of them buried there.
I also had about 8 extra flagstone pieces from somewhere. These were being leaned up against a fence to keep the dog in when she was a puppy. I figured I could put them to good use, and just start over feeding the dog so she doesn’t fit under the fence.
Lastly, in the shed I had a bag of sandbox sand leftover from God knows what.
And most importantly I had uninterrupted time. This is the gift that keeps on giving.
This allowed me to do things my way, at my pace and it could take as long as I would like.
There’s really not much more to this story other than I learned that I am not a professional landscaper and it shows - but, it’s better than having 9 buried patio stones in the lawn and now we have steps to the pool area which is something we didn’t have when I started this morning.
Like all DIY, if you look too closely you will see mistakes but this cost no money other than some sweat and an afternoon. I did not leave the house to get supplies and spent no money on this job.
It was either this or a nap.
This job is far from perfect but when the sod I replaced grows back in it should look a bit better. It’s for little toes to bounce from the house to the pool and back for the remainder of the summer and hopefully, this will keep more dirt outside than in but there’s no guarantee with that.
With that in mind, it’s good enough.
Now, about that nap..
Until Next Time,
TH and Co.