The unveiling… the pathway of pavers has been completed… woohoo!

On February 17, 2013February 17, 2013 By Barbara StroudIn HOME8 Comments

The “Before”, which was perfectly fine until the pavers started getting pushed up from the roots making it quite the challenge to walk on the path… not good. So, Fred dug up these pavers and MOVED them away from the tree (making it much better for the tree). He managed to do the bulk of this in a few days… then we spent a weekend moving plants, changing beds a little bit, and now… we’re waiting for the grass to crawl over the dirt that you see pictured below close to the pavers. The grass has already started creeping! (Better photos soon… this was right before it started raining)!

Gorgeous! Fred moved some monkey grass that we had behind the pool and planted at each end of the walkway to lead your eye to the path, and not the straightaway to the garage! It worked beautifully!

Fabulous job! THANK YOU FRED! YOU’RE AWESOME! Catch you back here tomorrow!

The new walkway… pavers have been moved… in progress!

On February 16, 2013December 21, 2013 By Barbara StroudIn HOME8 Comments

I know! Isn’t he the most gorgeous man? Sweet too! Lucky me! This was hour 500 of pulling up/digging out old pavers, and creating a new pathway to not upset our live oak tree’s sensitive roots… We want that tree to thrive, so this is what “we” must do! I showed you where we started last week in THIS POST. Look at him… smile on his face. How wonderful is that?

I had already raked some leaves into the old pathway just to keep the beast’s feet clean (Charlie/Jack Russell) but you can see where Fred started pulling out old pavers that were put down over ten years ago… To recap: the reason we’re moving this walkway is because the large roots are uprooting the pavers in many areas close to the tree. Upon further investigation I read that it was a bad idea to cut the tree’s roots (or even put down pavers so close to a tree), so we re-routed…

Tomorrow… the unveiling, you won’t believe your eyes! Catch you back here then!

Oak trees and pavers… who knows what to do?

On November 11, 2012December 9, 2013 By Barbara StroudIn HOME, THOUGHTS3 Comments

Well, jeez, it looks like maybe I should get busy and scrape and paint this fence before the cold weather appears! Hey, a good job for a nice sunny day!… Years ago when we had a pool installed we had pavers put down. Lots and lots of them (which is why my neighbors always see me out sweeping. All those leaves drive me crazy, sweep, sweep, sweep… and YEP, we have a blower. It seems as if one is constantly going and I don’t want to add to it. Plus, I like to sweep… We had also planted a big live oak tree several years prior to that… as you may have guessed the roots from the tree are now lifting some of the pavers. What to do? Who knows if it’s ok to dig up the pavers (cannot imagine doing this) and cutting the root, then putting the pavers back down? I’m no expert and just wondered if (hopefully) someone out there might be?

I always have liked this view into our backyard… years ago we painted the wooden (natural) fence a dark green, same with the garage and they quietly blended into the landscape. No longer does the fence or garage stand out, yippee! The weather is great in Charleston this time of year. For that I am so thankful! Whew, we lived through another summer, woohoo!

Catch you back here tomorrow!