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I live in a small town in Washington State, USA, with my wife, two sons, two dogs, a cat, and family nearby. I work at the local community college as an I.T. Specialist. In March of '02, we bought a 70-some year old house that needed a lot of work. When I'm not working on the house, I like to throw pots, be outside, and read a lot.

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Tuesday, August 03, 2004


View from above: What used to be a raised bed of sorts, surrounded by a cement laid stone pathway gets shoveled out to fill in a shallow decline at the Northwestern edge of the upper yard. Tommy in his command center. Mom headed to her chair for some quilting. Tomato plant growing out of control but no fruit yet. Posted by Hello

posted by Scott in Washington at 10:58 AM |

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  • Brit is the destroyer and the cultivator of plants and flowers. I'm more interested in building things. I build the raised beds and she plants things in them. She is always threatening to knock out walls while I'm at work.

    As for inside vs. outside work, you take what the weather gives you. I think they counter balance each other. I like to have one main inside and one outside project going at a time to break things up.

    In this picture, Tommy is the little blob of color at Brittany's feet. He can also be seen pictured in his command center, elsewhere on this site, smearing a teething cookie into his nose.

    SD

    By Blogger Scott in Washington, at 8/06/2004 08:47:00 PM  

  • As far as your house being a disaster; we know all about that. Our house is sort of like that old Johnny Cash song - 'We did it one room at a time and it didn't cost us a' ... well, it cost us a lot more than a dime, but thats another story....

    I should explain the situation in the yard a little more. I dug the shallow depression out and used the resulting fill to level the downslope part of the yard with the help of a small retaining wall. The depression will get a french drain, a layer of round rock, and then a layer of patio bricks that should come set up about two inches from the border path. Thats the plan anyway. One question I haven't answered yet is want to plant in the intervening inch gaps between the bricks. I'd like something that will stay green without much water, not spread over the bricks, and stand being walked on. I don't want to pack the borders between the bricks with anything less coarse than sand.

    By Blogger Scott in Washington, at 8/06/2004 08:54:00 PM  

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