The Well House: Part two

Remember when I took up all the river rock from the front of the house & I was like "I am never going to do this again ever ever everrrrrrr"? Well, I'm doing it again.

The lesson I have learned is that you can't look it at and say "Oh I can get this done in a few hours". I know now that this is a more-than-one-day project. A little bit at a time. 

So first the little fence came down. 

Then the huge rock removal. 

& after some weeding (not sure why I even bothered), I started removing rocks.

This is how far I got.

I feel like that's pretty good. Oh, also I discovered there are three layers of rocks. *dies*

Roxy supervised. 

I'll remove more tomorrow. Day by day. 

In the meantime here's a photo of some pretty flowers growing behind the well house.

Part two: Since I have a green thumb....

OK so a week ago I came home from work & stared at this for a good 20 minutes.

We were going out of town for a wedding to go to the following day. So I could either plant them that night or do it when we got back late Sunday. It was kind of raining. & I was tired. but lets be honest I knew I wouldnt come home Sunday & do it. I also didnt want them sitting out too long. So I got started.

I took a couple hours but I managed to plant everything as the soon was going down. I cannot wait for everything to grow in and expand. It's going to be fun to add & move things.

Onto the real fun part: mulching.


OK so here's what went down. I went to the store where I got the mulch I used for the front. I find out they dont have that mulch anymore. Super. Great. They have similar cedar mulch but it is very light. I bought four bags but once I got home I realized there was no way I could mulch with two different colors. My OCD would not have it. So I went back to the store on Saturday to return the ugly mulch & they had my mulch! Hurray! I bought 6 bags. I thought it was overkill but ended up using 4.5 just for this second planting. Mulch doesn't really go a long way. & it's a big space anyway.

OH I also realized that the lense on my camera was horrifically dirty, so now the pictures will be 120% better because its been cleaned. No more weird bright glow looking pictures.

Halfway done. Seriously this is 2.5 bags in. but it looks so good & I love it! 

Yeah!! Full circle!! 

One more project to check off the list. 

Now onto the wellhouse.....

Taming the overgrowth brush hog style.

To say our property was overgrown would be an understatement. There are weeds and grass everywhere. The worst was over on the hillside, behind the well house. This area gets the most sun and since we've had a ton of rain lately the conditions to grow were perfect. Some weeds were almost six feet high. To tackle this, we rented a brush hog for a day. Its pretty much a glorified lawnmower but it will take down EVERYTHING in its path.

So here is the hillside before:

Oh you don't know what you're looking at? Yea that's because everything is covered in weeds. You can't see anything. The first photo is looking down towards the fire pit. but you can't see that because of the crazy weeds growing a million feet tall. 

Starting the teardown!

So awesome to see the firepit in view again. & knowing I won't lose Maggie in the grass. 

Such an incredible difference! Once you cut everything down it is just there, on the ground. & there it will stay. We are a little concerned with the erosion of the hill so anything we can keep on the hill is a good idea. 

Bonfire ready!!! 

The Well House: Part One

The well house is my favorite place ever. EVER. Look at it. It's beautiful.

& it's small & adorable. but also kind of creepy & weird. Can't you just see yourself living inside it & reading books and drinking tea & being artsy and cool? because I can. My long term plan is to make it this neat space. Inside & out. So Im starting with the outside.

First things first - rip all the ivy down. Did that in the fall. So one thing done.

Secondly I had to rip out all the overgrowth of ivy and weeds and other stuff that was under the side window. This was a lot harder than I thought it was going to be.

(sorry we're going back to the hazy pictures)

It just looks like nothing right? Like a little patch of weeds that you can take down in 10 seconds. No. Its all tangled with everything else. It was a nightmare. I would pull and nothing would happen. I tried to dig around it. I tried to cut it. It literally took over an hour to clear it. Nightmare.

Finally.

There were some holes to fill, probably from animals. So I tilled up a bunch of dirt and kind of made the space make a little more sense.

Part one done.