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| This will give you a better picture of progress. |
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| Potting soil topped with compost. |
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| Near the front entrance. |
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| Wendy hopes these ornamental strawberries will eventually cover the stump |
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| Near the driveway |
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| Waiting to be planted in the ground. |
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| Trees and shrubs also waiting to be planted. |
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| Finally we say good-bye to the portable toilet! |
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| After removing a rhodie and moving a fern, the first area planted and completed. |
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| Plants in place awaiting soil and compost. 85 holes dug, 55 plantings completed. |
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| Repair of two sprinkler heads was needed. |
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| Thanks to our security expert friend, Jon, who reconnected our security system. Wires in the attic had to be moved to a new location and new holes drilled. It was hot in the attic. |
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| Birds awaiting beautification of the area and more water. |
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| Ginko tree in new pot on the deck. |
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| Fern moved next to the driveway and shrubs and plants added below this fir. |
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| A beautiful variegated Japanese maple that can be viewed from three sets of windows in the house. |
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| First placement of plants. Hole digging needed. |
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| Van full of plants arrived Thursday afternoon! |
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| Along with plant wagon. |
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| Talking about plants. |
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| Placing plants according to Rebecca's landscaping plan. |
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| The gardening and landscaping project begins! |
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| Gardening soil and compost delivered 7:30am today. Landscaping plants arrive Thursday. |
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| In other outside projects, staining the new siding where the hot water heater/pressure tank once was. New bathroom window is still half white/half brown. Door is to the north guest room. Steps and patio still needed. |
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| Trim on new windows needs staining. |
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| The brush pile is gone after 4 days of 4 hour/day burning. Plus some help from neighbor Ken with his 1947 Massey Ferguson bulldozer who pushed the remaining pile of wet fir needles and sticks down the hill. Wendy's garden will be somewhere in this space. |
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| Goodbye to the dumpster! |
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| Our third bathroom will be gone soon! And with the dumpster gone we can park our car in the garage again. |
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| The plaster guys came to make touch-up repairs. We removed the protective cardboard on the floor when they left. |
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| and turned to our next project, burning the brush pile where Wendy's garden will go. |
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| A big day. Wendy in the newly installed and working master bathroom shower. |
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| Bathroom mirror installed. No window shades for privacy yet, good thing we live in the country. |
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| We were finally able to reassemble our Douglas fir bed and we slept in it after many months of camping out in the house. |
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| French doors to the master bedroom were installed. |
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| The door to the master bath was installed. Privacy at last! We are still waiting for shower stall, handles to cabinets, and two more towel bars. |
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| Last door hung was between the hall and the garage. |
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| New safe bolted to master bedroom floor. |
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| Dryer stacked on top of washer with new wiring. And new laundry sink. |
