Lots of more important, and urgent, things to be done, but what am I doing? Some yard renovations. My fingers ache; they're scratched, bruised, and swollen from work harder than they're accustomed. I'm starting to develop a tan, which is strange enough that I startle whenever I glimpse myself in the mirror. There doesn't seem to be a lot of point in exercising in the morning because there's some hard yakka happening in my front yard.
It began with pulling a few weeds, then some unwelcome clumps of grass. A large-ish corner between my house and the fence dividing my property from the neighbours had grown wild for years - weeds, grass, and blackberries above my knees - and I've fancied that area could be put to much better use for... about as long. I'm not sure what prompted me to make a project out of it
right now, though it may have something to do with the end of the study period and having a butt tonne of assignments due that I just don't want to do - who knows? >_>
I am enjoying it, though. It would be nice if I could achieve something like this for myself - maybe there is hope that I'll make something of my house that turns it into a home afterall.
( there's no photographic genius under here - due warning, I took some slimey bug pictures too )I'm not sure what the old owners of the house were thinking when they put plastic down underneath the dirt/bark, but it's proving to be such a pain in the arse to get up and out of there. It did nothing at all to stop the weeds growing, or the grass growing, or anything else they probably hoped it would keep out of that corner.
I'll be (hopefully) levelling the ground again - they'd dug out a hole and put a fake well in it (omg I hate such twee shit) - then laying down real weed matting before putting another layer of bark on the top. My father made a picnic-style table years and years ago, and they never use it any more, so I'll be adopting that as soon as it gets a little repair work done. Add a stepping stone or two, and I'll be sitting out there with my chilled wine doing my homework in a week or two. It's right outside my office window, so I should have perfect connectivity with my router. \o/
Next - or in addition to this - project, I'll be establishing some lattice and fostering a creeping plant of some kind - jasmine probably - to provide a blind for some privacy. The fence will get some extensions to stop the neighbours peeking at me, and maybe I'll bring some potted plants into the area for aesthetics.
Hopefully the whole thing will be done for $100 or less. (Please God, make it less.)
So what have you been up to? :D
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