Fixing Up the House — Changing the Landscape
Over the past few days, Gina and I have embarked on a quest to change the front of the house by updating the landscaping. The main tasks include:
- Replace Black Plastic Flower Bed Lining with Bricks
- Remove the Three Bushes and Tree from the Right front of the house
- Remove the rest of the red rocks from the flower beds
- Trim the bottom six feet of the tree to the left of the driveway
We started by pulling out the black plastic trim that used to sit in between the flower beds and the grass. The first half of the trim was still pretty well buried, so that took a little more work to get out, but it was pretty easy. While I did that, Gina started to dig a small trench for the bricks and started to put in the bricks.
While pulling out the second half of trim I started to also remove red rocks and place them into a garbage can. They end up being very heavy after a while. We found some little fire ants in the soil in front of the house and put down the insect killer where ever we saw the insects. We then added some bricks we picked up at Menards to the front of the flower bed.
Once the trench and the bricks were finished, I started to trim back the bushes so we can start to think about removing them. I had one little accident and I got a little careless and ended up cutting through the extension cord. Oops! 
The hedge trimmer I have was insufficient for the job and I think I will have to borrow a chain saw from someone.
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