No posts for a while, been lazy. Last weekend we hacked away a bunch of the sticky trees in front of the house, cleaning it up just a little bit. Need to remove the stumps. Also need to remove the trees from the side of the house, but we’re making progress. We moved a huge pile of leaves from the side of the house down into our Loam Farm in the slope down in front of the deck.

Leslie decided she wanted some raised beds and a larger garden on the west side of the house, where there’s room, and a lot of sun. There was some area, largely ruined ground with gravel beneath moss and leaves, and a dirt hillside obscured by a huge redwood hot tub and surrounding deck. Leslie decided she wanted the side deck gone. So this weekend kerz, Hixie and I removed much of the deck. We will have contractors finish the work but we got a lot done and the space looks transformed.

Before:

(This picture comes from the listing of our house, and was not taken by me)

The hot tub there is truly disgusting, but of an interesting design:

We had to make sure not to damage infrastructure like electrical, gas and water: