Welcome to Andre's previous jungle

Andre

It seems to be project time. This used to be my little front yard:



So it was decided to redo it after Myrthe's birth. This was taken yesterday:



and this at lunch time today. Dinand wants to help too



I'll keep you posted

Evo

Oh dear!!

turbo

My wife is in the years-long process of making our front lawn into a jungle. She splits up her perennials as they spread and swaps them with her friends and plants the new ones. She can't tell me what a particular plant is, but neither can her friends. If it is "pretty" that's good enough. I wish she would would proceed apace, so I don't have little patchy places to mow and weed-whack.

Gad

Can't wait to see the result, Andre!

Borg

Looks like you're making good progress. That was a lot of jungle to clear out. Carrying and mortaring all those bricks isn't that easy either.

Andre

I hope it goes fast. Incidently the pots in the lower left corner contain the lily of the valley of the pic in the photo contest. I try to save them. Turbo, your spouse may have some.

So this is the situation at the end of this day:



Obviously there are tell tale signs that Dinand did help indeed.

Andre

Thanks Borg, yes it goes well. Luckily Dinands father is helping.

Andre

So today started out with rain and we got to a late start. Then we had a few hours of productivity. But then it suddenly poured down hard.



So I used the time to fight windmills in P&WA

But the showers diminished and we could resume work to get here:



waiting for the first neighbor, inquiring when the first show will be in our amphi-theatre.

Jimmy Snyder

What an ambitious project. I can't wait to see the progress reports.

Gad

Looks good so far Andre :D

Evo

Looking very nice Andre!

lisab

Looks nice! Now glue little dolls (like Barbie dolls) walking up and down and around the bricks...make it look like Escher's yard .

Andre

Splendid idea, Lisa! can Ken come too?

Today was a day with other priorities, no visible progress, but a lot of planning indoors. Tomorrow should show more progress, if the weather cooperates.

Andre

Another productive day today.

It's not too hard to get here, just if you have good ways to get a perfect base, just carrying an awful lot of tiles.



But to get from there to here, cutting the bording tiles, one by one, that's the real job.



Now we need three more cubic meters of soil. That for another day

Gad

Wow Andre, looks good already! :D

Borg

Looks great Andre! I did a similar project in my yard in 2005 with 2 cubic yards of dirt so, I know what it's like to move that much dirt and stone.

Jimmy Snyder

Nice. How did you level the ground?