Sunday, April 29, 2007

The Pile of Rocks

It all started with a mystery pile of rocks in my driveway....

Ok, it was a mystery to my wife until I told her how they appeared and why.

So we started the day by digging out a bunch of overgrown filth, putting down landscaping plastic and piling up the rocks. We added a few ornamental grasses, including a blue fescue of which I am particularly fond, and a small juniper shrub. The idea is that we don't want anything that will drop little pellets of compost in the pool. This was the end of day one:



Axl and Whitney got in on the action with Aunt Katie (aka Uncle Dorkboy). They planted some French rosemary and some cilantro in the freshly weeded herb garden. They enjoyed smelling the sage and the chives which seem to be doing well already this year.


The end of day one was celebrated with tuna steaks, a couple of smoked chicken breasts, bacon-wrapped asparagus, red skinned potatoes, and of course some beer and wine. Exhaustion provided a comfortable, buzzy segue into day 2.

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