Thursday, May 26, 2011

This is the Shed that Ben Built. . .

These are the pieces.

This is Ben, who bought the pieces.

These are the friends, who helped Ben, who bought the pieces.

This is the box the pieces came in and a kid of one of our friends, who helped Ben, who bought the pieces.
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This is the wall that goes to the shed, that came in the box the pieces came in and a kid of one of our friends, who helped Ben, who bought the pieces.

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These are all the walls, the wall that goes to the shed, that came in the box the pieces came in and a kid of one of our friends, who helped Ben, who bought the pieces.

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This is the door. That attaches to the walls, the walls that go to the shed, that came in the box the pieces came in and a kid of one of our friends, who helped Ben, who bought the pieces.

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This is the shed that Ben built, that has a door that attaches to walls, the walls that go to the shed that came in the box the pieces came in and a kid of one of our friends, who helped Ben who bought the pieces.

It was so nice to have friends come and help us put it together. The missionaries even showed up which was great! Thanks for everyone who helped!

Here are some other projects we have been working on.

ROCK LANDSCAPE

The girls, their friend and I tackled the side of the house while Ben was at work. We finished more than half. I told the girls they were so strong and bought them slurpees for payment.
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PLANTER BOXES

Ben made the planter boxes and we filled them(this was after finishing the rock landscaping) with some yummy topsoil. We'll we hope the plants think it's yummy. Afterwards, Ben and I wanted to pass out.

This was the marathon day where I did fifty million things. I woke up early to grocery shop, ran a 5K, bought a bike, went to yard sales, finished putting the rocks in, conducted the music at a baptism, filled the planter boxes with topsoil, and went to a birthday party!
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Many of our plants died from our old yucky soil and so we planted some new ones.
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GRASS

I give all props to Ben being able to grow grass. This has been the longest project ever and it is still not done.

We began in October of last year. I dug most of the trenches by hand, because we wanted to use the pipes from the old system, that did not work. We also wanted to check to see if there were any leaks in the pipes.

Ben put the sprinkler system in and had the faith that grass would grow from seed.

I had my doubts. But you can see here, that yes indeed, grass can grow from seed.

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It's not perfect and there are still holes everywhere that we are trying to patch. Also a big chunk by the kids play area, we had to kill with Roundup because they were all weeds. We are going to rototiller the area and start from scratch.

Yard work is hard work but making improvements in your yard also brings a sense of satisfaction and happiness. We still have a ton more to do, but we are proud of what we have done so far!

8 comments:

Tyler and Lisa said...

Great job! This all looks awesome!

Ziegler Family said...

such hard work but ohhh it looks so good and it is always nice to see something that you create with your own hands and some sweat. Great Job!!!

Coretta from Confetti said...

AH! I love the shed bit writing... how long did that take? It sounds like it was something that formulated itself as you were captioning pictures. Awesome

Valerie said...

Thanks everyone! Coretta, I got the idea for the shed bit from children's books. Some of them have this layout like "The Napping House" by Audrey Woods. I'm a children's book fan!

Andy Porter said...

awesome shed! Your yard is looking so awesome! You guys are always so productive!!

Andy Porter said...

Holy Shed!
Joe

Michael Family said...

Looks so awesome. Way to go! Ye, of course grass can grow from seeds, silly! :)

Valerie said...

Of course grass can grow from seed, that wasn't my concern. My concern was that WE were trying to grow grass from seed and from our track record, we usually just kill things! Maybe our killing streak is over!