The Rock Post

I have think of it as a blessing that all these rocks were in piles when we moved in.  Obviously someone we trying to clear them out of flower beds and such, but didn't get around to taking them away.  

There were 6 piles.  One in the front flower bed (Where the Dogwood bush is now) *see previous post. And there were 5 in the backyard. The front yard pile is not in this trailer.  I was able to put them in the garbage can without making it too heavy. (Thank goodness!) I started loading them in the trailer last Monday.  It was an interesting experience because you think that the rocks are all on top of the dirt.  Ha ha!  That would be way too easy.  Every pile had rocks under the dirt, so a shovel was useful. 

I was going to get the last and biggest pile out yesterday, which would mean I loaded them all in the trailer myself.... That was until I started picking up rocks and finding spiders that were looking at me like this....

Seriously!  They were acting like they wanted to attack me!  I don't like spiders when they are running away from me.  EVEN LESS when they're raising there legs, ready to attack!  It didn't help that there were at least 20 that I saw.  This was another reason to get rid of the rock piles.  Nowhere to live, so find a new home... In the neighbors yard!

I called Houston and told him I couldn't finish.  The spiders where just too much.  He laughed and told me to take the hose over there and spray them when I saw them.  (I didn't even think of that)  Well, I took the hose over, but instead of spraying them when I saw them.  I just totally drenched the whole rock pile, and watched as they fled.  I started picking up rocks again a little bit later, but to make things worse, the tire on the wheelbarrow went flat.  So I had to start filling buckets and carrying them over to the trailer.  That last pile was not very far away from the trailer, but after you've lifted ten buckets full over and up into it, you get really tired.  

So all in all, Houston had to help with the last 1/3 of the last pile. 

On a good note! It's all done!!!!

Hallelujah!!!

I'm sure there will plenty more rocks, but all of those will make trips to the dump in the garbage can. Hopefully we will find those future rocks a little bits at at time. 

Oh, As for all the yard work. I have gone through 2 pairs of work gloves in less than 2 months.  Houston says the most recent pair to get a hole should probably be covered with duct tape.  Otherwise we will probably go broke just replacing gloves for me. LOL!

***UPDATE***

We took the rocks to the dump.  They weigh you when you go in.  Here is how many pounds of rocks we took out of our yard...

Yeah... 

Our House... In The Middle of Our Street.

Most everyone who reads this knows already that we bought a house.  So, here it is!

(This is the listing photo)

We had almost bought another house in Eagle Mountain, but the location was not ideal for either of our establishments of work.  It didn't become really obvious until Houston had to drive straight from work in Springville out there to do the inspection.  So we backed out of it.  I didn't want to waste time, so talked to a real estate agent and said I wanted to continue looking right away.  

I saw the listing for our "now" house the same day and went through it that day too!  I couldn't get over how good the location was and the fact that I've always liked Victorian Style homes.  This is obviously not a real Victorian, but I'm okay with a knock off.  :P

I called Houston right away and said he needed to leave work to come and see it.  The owners only wanted the house listed and shown for 2 days so everything had to be fast.  

Long story short, they chose our offer and we are now in the house!  

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In case you didn't know this about me.  I am slightly OCD about things being a certain way.  So, first thing I did was paint all the bedrooms.  The house was all white except the living room. It was a very nice color so it stayed.  But everything else was white.  It felt like a hospital!  I did all bedrooms before we moved all of our stuff in.  Best decision!  I didn't have to move stuff around to get to the walls. 

I didn't paint everything all at once.  I want to change the main color too but we have deemed that a winter project.  As for now, I've been doing yard beautification.  I couldn't believe how the previous owners let the front yard get!  You can't see it from the photo above but there were SO many weeds in the flower beds.  So, I weeded like crazy and in the process I found a peony that I didn't even know was there.... Yeah, I was slightly bugged.

Once all the weeds were out I got to ridding the west side of flower bed of ivy!  That stuff is such a beast to get rid of. And I found a tree stump I didn't know was there either...  Thankfully enough Troy came over and helped us rip that one out so I could continue getting all the landscaping I wanted to get done before fall, which included putting a bush pretty much right where it was.  None of the original flowers are staying.  3 Peony bushes and 3 rose bushes are being dug up and taken to my parent's house.

I did paint one other thing..  The front door. I didn't like the green so I went red....

The shutters are green too, but I bought black ones, and they should be showing up today or tomorrow.  

Here are bushes that got put in. 

Green Mountain Boxwood

Red twig Dogwood

Midnight Wine Weigela

Here is before. That stupid stump is right there in the middle.  It kinda  hard to see.  Looks like a rock. It was huge when we started digging around it.

Here is after!!! the Boxwood and the dogwood on the right!

The Weigela is by the steps in the front of the house. It replaced the Peonies. Sorry no picture of it. 

We have so much work to get done before fall!  The front will be easy now that the big stuff is in.  I've ordered a bunch of bulbs, but they wont be here until October.  Now it's on the backyard stuff.  We got rid of giant compost pile, that wasn't done right and made the yard look horrible.  Now it's rocks.... Wait until I post of the pictures of the trailer that will take them away. There are SOOO many!   We are almost done.  One more pile left.  

Anyway, that's all the improvements so far.  "The Rock Post" will be next.