a barrel of this: house: New fence for the lawn that now has a mower http://house.abarrelofthis.com/articles/2006/09/14/new-fence-for-the-lawn-that-now-has-a-mower en-us 40 New fence for the lawn that now has a mower <p><img src="/images/new_fence.jpg" alt="Fence" title="Our backyard" /></p> <p>Our neighbors decided it was time to upgrade their fence so we decided to hop on board that train. Now we have a fence! I spent some time this past weekend moving the concrete blocks I dug up over into the corner by the back gate. This is where the trash can and recycling go. The blocks are almost level! There is going to be a little corral back there with another gate on the south side. I dug the hole a bit deep so now there is soil along the north wall which is the start of a flower bed.</p> <p>The fence really makes the backyard a more useful space. We want to put down some stone so we can put out our meager lawn furniture. We also plan on disguising the heat pump with some shrubs. The current thinking is for a Japanese maple in the front yard as the backyard won&#8217;t really accommodate even a small tree.</p> <p>My folks bought us a mower:<br /> <img src="/images/mower.jpg" alt="Push mower" title="Our Scott push mower" /></p> <p>The mower comes from the fine people at <a href="http://www.cleanairgardening.com/">Clean air gardening</a>. It works fairly well but, our yard is very uneven and full of concrete bits from the crumbling path that needs to be dug up. Perhaps that is this weekend&#8217;s task. But, the folks are visiting next week so I&#8217;ll probably be indoors tracking down cat hair-dust bunnies that blow around our hardwood floors like tumbleweeds.</p> Thu, 14 Sep 2006 13:38:00 -0700 urn:uuid:a2623c1eb5140dffccd7511745a68146 Matthew http://house.abarrelofthis.com/articles/2006/09/14/new-fence-for-the-lawn-that-now-has-a-mower Remodeling: Landscape http://house.abarrelofthis.com/articles/trackback/64 "New fence for the lawn that now has a mower" by K <p>Hey, I vacuumed the downstairs last week! It isn&#8217;t as bad as it was!</p> Fri, 15 Sep 2006 20:07:06 -0700 urn:uuid: http://house.abarrelofthis.com/articles/2006/09/14/new-fence-for-the-lawn-that-now-has-a-mower#comment-105