Ok so I didn't do this ALL on Labor Day, but the weekend was definitly full of finishing up projects on the yard. The first project I finished was the fountain by my garage. The area began as a flower bed that I couldn't get anything to thrive in b/c my dogs used it as a part of their "run when full of the devil" path...those with dogs will understand...those without just pict
ure two small dogs running at turbo speed through the garden. Needless to say this does not help the garden grow! So my friend Joy & I were pondering the calamity & she suggested a raised bed, which got me to thinking about the water feature I've always wanted to put there, & wallah! Fountain from bricks, w/ slate, w/ plants, & a bubbler to make calming watery noises while I'm out on the patio. :) Here are a few before, during, & after pics!
The second project, which I thought would be fairly easy & turned into a 1 1/2 hr dig for a single hole, was digging up my lilac, moving it to another corner of the yard, & replacing it with a peach tree! As you can see from the before image, when I moved into my house there was a "sandbox" that was really filled w/ dirt & other things I don't want to mention. So one of the first things I did when I started working on the yard, was clean the area up, plant a lilac bush, & throw some mulch down. Well for some reason this summer, my lilac started getting brown leaves & looking like it was going to die. I moved it to a shadier part of the yard w/ better dirt, in hopes that it'll come back & bloom in the spring! That done I was left w/ a big hole & nothing to 
put there. That's when I got the bright idea to dig the area out, really clean it up, & plant a peach tree. As previously mentioned it turned into quite a task-2 full pickle buckets of rock, a thick layer of weird compressed oily black dirt, some sand that was almost stone by the time I got to it, & wallah! An hour & a half later I had a 3' x 3' hole....WAY too much work! :) But I filled it in w/ high quality soil, planted the tree, a couple of perennials & it's really looking nice. Hopefully next summer (or the summer after) I'll going be swimming in peaches! :D
put there. That's when I got the bright idea to dig the area out, really clean it up, & plant a peach tree. As previously mentioned it turned into quite a task-2 full pickle buckets of rock, a thick layer of weird compressed oily black dirt, some sand that was almost stone by the time I got to it, & wallah! An hour & a half later I had a 3' x 3' hole....WAY too much work! :) But I filled it in w/ high quality soil, planted the tree, a couple of perennials & it's really looking nice. Hopefully next summer (or the summer after) I'll going be swimming in peaches! :D 
