It was an early morning, especially for a holiday... we rented a pick-up truck then filled it with asphalt and concrete that we've dug up from our yard over the last year and headed over to Cambridge Bark and Loam where they charged a small fee to take it off our hands. Then we filled the truck bed with a loam compost mix (and went back from a second fill) that we moved from the truck to a giant mound in the backyard. Next stop was Cambridge Lumber to get wood to build some more beds in the back yard.
Once we had all the supplies we headed downtown to watch some friends who were running the Boston Marathon.
Then back home to get to work... we purchased some plants yesterday and there's talk of rain so I wanted at least to get the trees in the ground to get to benefit from the rain. After spending the beginning of last week ripping out all the 'grass' in the backyard to be able to start that fresh too I was hoping to get to that as well but quickly became clear that reseeding won't be able to happen until the new pile of dirt gets moved into the new beds when we get those built.
got a hydreangea tree planted in the front yard
and a peach tree planted in the back yard (back left corner)... since we're unsure about our dirt we dug a giant hole and filled it with our new dirt for the peach tree
Then it was back downtown for a post marathon celebration.
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