Busy in the Yard

Well the pool is gone, took 3 weekends of work to disassemble it. Today we rented a commercial roto tiller and turned the whole yard. Now we are raking all the excess soil into the hole. After all is done we may only need one load of top soil.  I've also been busy cleaning up the front garden, ridding it of weeds, overgrown grass and many tree stumps. I have some cool weather pansies planted for colour but it's still too cold here for any other flowers yet.  My lilac trees are budding. I was hoping they would be in bloom for my birthday that won't be the case.

Here's the shell of the pool, which was taken apart and away last week. It looked more like a rodeo ring.

This is my new fir tree that I bought for the back yard. It's not quite 4 feet tall. It's a silver spruce.

Well heres the yard with the pool gone and land tilled. As you can see the deck is gone too. Turns out there wasn't much support under it so it's just as well we had to take it apart to get to the pool. The stairs will go down to the yard from the middle of the deck just like the deck in Mississauga. We are also going to make the deck longer so that it goes almost to the end of the house.  The green along the fence still has to be cleaned up and that is where my dahlias will be planted. I can hardly wait to get them in.

Soon it will be level. Hard to believe there was a 20 feet round pool there! My tree will have to be moved because now that the decidious tree to the left of it is blooming I can see when the fir grows they will touch each other. Best to move it now.

I left the bush in front of the steps as I don't know yet what it is. We put solar lights in the garden. I have removed all the rotten wood frame that was there and am putting used brick in for this year. Next year it will all be done in stone. From the end of the porch to the end of the brick wall was all grass, weeds and tree stumps. I have got most of it cleaned out and will put impatients there as it is mostly shady except for the morning.

 Where the coloured flowers are in the lawn I planted a juniper bush in each spot. The flowers (Rununculus) will only bloom this year.  To the left is the lilac tree that was already here. The other patch in the middle has a rose bush that was already here. I have planted some dahlia bulbs around it. Already I have my trademark painted tomato cages around the bulbs. Funny but last week at Home Depot I saw painted tomato cages in hot pink, marine blue and lime green. Someone must have seen mine and got the idea to sell them that way! I've been painting mine for 20 years now. Guess I should have patented the idea eh! LOL
Dolton is coming along too. With all the rainy days we've had I've been able to spend my time down here. I can walk from end to end now and it is all clear. Yes there are still many boxes left to unpack but they are all out of my way so soon I will be able to set up scenes again.
So everything is coming together finally.

All these photos were taken with my new camera that I won from the Heart and Stroke Lottery. It has taken some getting used to using as it has no view finder just a big screen. My last digital camera had a view finder where you put it right up to your eye and look through it like a normal camera. But this takes some getting used to. I don't have very steady hands so holding the damn thing at arms length to see what you want to take a picture of is stupid in my opinion. I guess that's progress for you! My old camera sat in a cradle and was charged up all the time. These new ones only run on batteries.  And let me tell you the batteries don't last long. Bad for the environment too. Okay so I could spend a lot of money and buy rechargable batteries. Another cash grab! I think that is what I shall have to do. Cos soon as Dolton is set up I want to be taking a lot more pix. I just hope I'm used to this camera by then.
Have a great rest of the weekend everybody. It's time for some lemon merangue pie!