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Keeping the dogs in the yard

Posted in Puppy Dolls, The Yard, tagged , , , , , , on September 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »

The dogs were getting loose.
Last week, while working on the stone wall, I opened the gate and accidently let the dogs out. I ran out calling their names. When I got to the side walk, they were running toward me from four houses away. They came all the way to me, and I picked them [...]

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Building a dry stack stone wall

Posted in The Yard, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on September 5, 2008 | 3 Comments »

We are well on our way to enjoying a beautiful new stone wall from the comfort of our patio chairs. Today and Saturday, however, I am enjoying each rock’s fine nuanced chips and delicately sparkling finish up close as I mostly cover the beauty of each to build my wall. Here is some of today’s [...]

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Tamped out

Posted in The Yard on September 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Thursday morning

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Dig it

Posted in The Yard, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on September 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Wednesday we dug and tamped and dug and tamped. We did not do an expert job. We did not dig deep enough in some areas or wide enough in others. I don’t know if this will make our wall fall down or not. Time will tell.

Walt did most of the tamping. I did a lot [...]

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12 tons of rock

Posted in The Yard, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , on September 3, 2008 | 2 Comments »

On Tuesday we drove to Jarrell, Texas and bought additional rocks for our wall from a quarry there, and they were delivered Tuesday evening. I thought the rocks would arrive on pallets, but they didn’t. 

We bought 12 tons of “rust flag” limestone quarried right there in Jarrell. This cost $800 including delivery, and the salesperson [...]

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