What you see on this picture is a few aspect you couldn't see on this a part of our yard for maximum of the past three years: the ground.
Ever on the grounds that that fateful day in March 2010 after I spoke back a posting on Freecycle offering a load of cement pavers, this part of our backyard has been home to a stack of bricks about three ft high, six huge, and deep. After a while we were given so used to it that we greater or an awful lot less stopped noticing it modified into there; it virtually form of blended into the landscape. And even after maximum of the pavers subsequently made their way into our new patio a month inside the beyond, the pile failed to totally disappear; in reality, it without a doubt spread out greater, as the bricks we would rejected due to defects of severa kinds fashioned a secondary pile, masses untidier than the primary, subsequent to what remained of the unique stack.
But no longer. As of these days, the pavers that we've determined are nevertheless usable (for a few ability destiny undertaking as however to be decided) are neatly stacked toward the lower back wall of our shed, forming a pile four bricks deep, five huge, and nine excessive. The ones that we've deemed too badly damaged to use are in a smaller stack subsequent to our trash barrel, where they'll be delivered by ones and twos to each load of garbage as we placed it out for pickup. And the ground in which the brick pile once stood is floor yet again?A bit bare, probably, for the reason that no longer anything green should have survived three years with out seeing the daylight, but on the charge the weeds in our yard unfold, the bare patch might be blanketed over right away.
So that's two of the four piles left over from our patio project gone, and two still left to deal with: the big pile of dirt excavated from under the patio, much of which will no doubt go into smoothing out the new slope we built up around its edges, and the pile of concrete chunks left over from the demolition of the old concrete slab, which will...well, we'll think of something. But bit by bit, our yard is finally starting to look like a yard again, rather than a recently abandoned construction site. I actually have hopes that before fall comes, we may get it to the point where the whole yard finally looks better with the new patio than it looked without it.
