Demolish, almost

Almost - Slightly short of; not quite; nearly.

July 13, 2009

Tomatoes (almost, and tomato) in July! I've never had tomatoes this early! We had to plant our garden in pots due to the back yard demolition (see POD below) and everything is doing so well! Maybe I'll have to stick with the pots. And, as a very important bonus, no weeding! We had a bunch of cinderblocks left over from yet another back yard demolition project, so we leveled out a spot and laid the cinderblocks into a sort of "patio" for the pots. Other than the fact that we have to hand water them since there is no working sprinkler in the area, it is working out very well. Next spring, if not earlier, Lane will get back to his favorite yard project of all: sprinkler moving. Don't let him kid you. He'll say what a pain it is to move sprinklers around, but really it's his favorite thing to do. All winter long he tells me of some new plan or another of how things would be so much better if that one sprinker was moved about 2 feet one direction or another. I have always teased him since we've been home owners that the first sign of spring isn't the robin redbreast, it's Lane digging holes in the yard and shopping for new sprinklers.

Demolish - to tear down or break up

July 14, 2009

Ah, the demolition. My parents hired someone to build this terraced sort of retaining wall. There is 2 levels of it, and it goes 2/3 of the way across the yard. The long way. Perhaps once upon a time it was well constructed, but it has been falling down for about 2 years now. In fact, Lane knocked some of it down with a tiller. So it's coming out. Parts of it will go down with a good, swift kick, and other parts are incredibly tough. He's trying to bring it down with a sledge hammer, so it will be slow going but this is the small section he brought down today before he got too hot and tired of swinging that sledge hammer. We'll get it down eventually, and by we, of course I mean him. So many projects . . .