New flowerbed

Well, you'd think with all the weeding I've been doing, we'd stay clear of adding more work to our plate. But, the garage was feeling lonely, and Matt was tired of taking the paint off the garage siding with the weed whacker, so while we had the rototiller (more about that in another post) we chewed up some of the grass by the garage and had at it:

Before:

And rototilled (you notice I also corrected for a significant dip in the yard with some left over dirt we had):

Then of course we added soeme plants, mulch and grass and waited a bit...pretty isn't it?

But, we didn't stop there, you didn't think we'd forgotten about all that stone we bought, oh, probably a year ago...

Of course not! So we got back out there, and started digging. 

 Then we filled the ditch with sand, so as to help with the leveling.

And resurrected an old friend, new and improved, of course. Matt decided "Tampy Baldwin" was a good name for this new incarnation of our old tamper. (for those of you non-wisconsinites). It was much improved, see the cushy handle and the heavier tamping block? Much nicer.

You can see below why any old tamper wouldn't do, even though after our last encounter with homemade tampers we did break down and buy one, it wasn't exactly shaped for this line of work. Old Tampy worked like a charm though.

 Here we are, almost done, just need to finish up the corner!