Sunday, August 10, 2008

What's Getting Into My Garden??


OK, so the garden is in full bloom. Just as I get excited to start to harvest everything and realize the savings of not having to buy anymore vegetables, something starts eating my lettuce and tomaotes. I mean, ALL my lettuce. And a a couple tomatoes every night. Just the ripe ones. I have a fence around by planting beds, but something is apparently crawling under them. I assume it is a groundhog, as they are all over the neighborhood. They're cute and they need to live too, but it's very disheartening to do all this work and have it spoiled. I will try to tack the fence down to the ground to see if that helps.

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Saturday, August 2, 2008

Driveway Update

So I got lots of quotes on the project. Lots of quotes. Since it entails curbwork, it's going to cost me more than I thought it would. I received quotes from $3100 to $5400. $5400?!?! That one was out of line. The company who gave me the best price is actually the one I feel most comfortable with, so I'm going with them. Here are the specs:

  1. remove apron from existing driveway
  2. clear out land for new driveway on other side of yard (10' by 45')
  3. break curb for new driveway
  4. pour new curb where old driveway curb cut is

It'll need to be done in phases, and I still need to get the permits. I hope that doesn't take long so I can get this started ASAP.

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