Max is such a faithful companion!But seriously, we dragged home as many landscape ties as we could strap to the top of the Audi and made ourselves some creations in the backyard. We've been working on "boundary" training the puppy and so we built a little area for him to do his business. The hope is to keep him restricted to this area and save our grass (and occasionally our shoes) and to make him understand where it's acceptable for him to go the bathroom!
I just filled it with free mulch from the town pit. Our town has a yard waste pit where you can dump prunings, grass clippings, blowdowns, etc, etc and periodically they run that pile through the chipper and leave the mulch piles for people to take if they want. The dog bathroom seemed a perfect use for free mulch, so we filled it up.Max is a fence runner. He runs up and down the fence trying to figure out how to get to the dogs on the other side, and we wanted to break up his run a bit, so we decided to put our native garden in the middle of his run area so that he would at least wouldn't have a straight run at the fence. I had some fun mitering landscape ties and built up a low area for our native garden. We have wanted to do this for a while, and we'll populate it with native phlox, blue bells, and whatever else we dig up that we like.
We also cleaned up and made a (rock) border around our azalea garden. Next spring, we'll need to remove an azalea or two from here as they're really over crowded, but we'll worry about that next year!
Lastly, with the bathroom and laundry room floor COMPLETELY FINISHED. We started working on the cabinets we want in the laundry room. We got some unfinished cabinets and have got one coat of stain on them (golden pecan), and next weekend we should finished up staining, and move them up into the laundry room. Then we've got to make a countertop of some sort for them!
First coat of stain:
Guess who's stupider:
Hope everyone is enjoying their summer as much as we are!
Nate
