Pet Rocks

The weird bit of dirt to the left of the driveway has been neglected even longer than the rest of the front yard.

It looked like this when we moved in:

Then it pretty much looked like that for two years, give or take some black plastic that never did kill the weeds like the internet promised. We've had a long standing plan to fill the area with some nice looking rocks, build a wood walkway to extend the driveway surface, and maybe plant some fountain grass.

We were renting a truck to take window waste to the dump, so we took the opportunity to get the rocks. We discovered that landscape rocks can be crazy expensive. We found some we liked then realized that they're $620 a ton. And we needed at least 1.5 tons. Uh, what?

So we decided to learn to like the MUCH cheaper ones.

Getting a lot of rocks into a truck at a landscape place is a piece of cake. You park on the scales and they dump the rocks in the truck. Getting them out is harder, to put it mildly.

Here's the truck with about a half ton of rocks, so 1/3 of the total. We removed them from the truck a shovel full at a time. It didn't take as long as I feared, but it did hurt for several days following.

But, bright side! We now have lovely and intentional looking rocks instead of dirt and weeds.

The wood walkway and potential plants will just have to wait, along with every other project!