Reworking the Aisle….
This is the third post in a four part series. If you didn’t catch the first or second, here are the links to each: Bricks… and A Porch Swing Belong Here.
Ever since Lesly’s wedding I’ve wanted to finished landscaping the aisle or walkway to the lower lawn. What a mess! One side of the walkway just drops off to a big patch of brush.
In the early spring it looks dead and brown, but for the wedding it was all green, so no one really noticed that it was brush and grass. Because it was bushy and green we just left it.
To get rid of this brushy plant you have to make sure you get all the root out; the root on this plant spreads out, sometimes having runners over three feet long. And there were usually several root groups for each plant.
I worked on this project for about three hours. While I was digging I found some interesting things: an old horseshoe, some wire, a six inch long nail and a brick. It’s always fun to dig into the dirt on our property. We bought the 20 acre piece that has the old farm house on it and we are always finding what I call treasures from the past.
This project will require a short retaining wall, but for now we will have to make due with the logs from the trees that are being thinned from our property. I wish I had the finances to go and buy those big beautiful retaining wall bricks. We used these to build a wall on one side of the daylight basement; they are colored deep burgundy and dark grey and it’s looks very nice.
Maybe next summer. I have put them on my list, but there are higher priorities; actually quit a few things have a higher priority. 
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