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#yardwork

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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

Here is the progression over the past ten years! A long way from the cement driveway that allowed the car, and the rain, into the basement! #selfie #diy #yardwork #driveway #gardening
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A picture of the original driveway featuring a sloped cement slab with fairly tall cement sides, going down towards a wooden door in the bottom of the house. The house is purple.
Alemany and Jensen Family MastodonChris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸 (@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca)Attached: 3 images @johnefrancis@cosocial.ca that was exactly the problem. And it sounds like a similar situation. This driveway used to be concrete, with concrete sides, actually sloping down into the garage/basement of the house. It used to flood! Not a good idea. So when we closed that all in and finished the baasement in 2013 we made sure the perimeter drain was good and just tooped it wil soil/dirt overtop the mostly broken up driveway cement. It has been annoyingly sloped to the left (with the slope of the hill we are on) ever since. So this was all about finishing that all off getting it level but also making sure it was permeable and well drained since it tends to rain (and slush!) alot. Here's the progression! (though when we first bought the house the garage door was blue and... not great lol)
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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

GOT'ER DONE.

It started to drizzle and there was no way on this earth I was gonna let the lawn soil get all waterlogged before I added the last little bits needed. So I heaved one more load of drain rock back into the dolley and finished it off.

Needng to charge the car was a good motivator! 😂 🚙 ⚡️

I really didnt want to put this off another week! Done! 🙌

i'll look from above and the front of the driveway with a purple azalea to the right and a red azalea that is finished blooming and starting to lose its petals beside it. The driveway is flat with dark brown earth closest to us, followed by a strip of drainage rock about a foot wide a strip of dirt between the two tracks also about a foot wide, and then another track of gravel, followed by the side of the driveway for this with clean dirt to flat slate stones where the doors of the car are. There are also two hydrangea bushes towards the middle of the far side and an apple tree in a garden box.
Of view from the end of the driveway shows the two strips, nice and flat going up to the edge of the blue house
Are you from behind the strips with the car parked on the gravel. The car is slightly crooked to the left.
#selfie#diy#yardwork
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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

So close to finishing! Had a standing appointment at 3 so had to stop just short.

Might try to finish it after dinner. Supposed to rain tomorrow, it would be good for seeding the grass/clover!

Body is sooo sore, mostly from shovelling the drain rock which is simultaneously slippery on a shovel and heavy to lift and cart around. But the end is near!

Positioning the slate slabs at the car doors. Only had 3 left from the pond project. We’ll get another load of those in time.
#selfie #diy #yardwork #driveway #gardening

The dirt filled most of the track where the rocks used to be.
Laying out a layer of lawn soil over the dirt and levelling the sides and middle and prepping them for the stepping stones.
The rocks in the tracks almost to the end!
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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

was an early start this morning. The challenge with doing things DIY is sometimes you do the wrong thing... usually it's not a big deal, and this wasn't, but it was a lot of shovelling to remove the drain rock I had put down.

After lunch I will start with what I should have done in the first place. Add in a bunch of dirt from the back to bring it close to the final level, get the a final load of top soil and then just put down a thin layer of rock.

🪏 🪨 🪏
#selfie #diy #yardwork #driveway #gardening

a first photo toward the driveway shows two tracks of white drain rock with brown dirt between and on the sides. There is a blue house behind. Ne of the tracks has been emptied of gravel.
a selfie of me after the first track was emptied. I am sweaty and making an exhaling big lips face. I am in the car (i had to take a load of stuff to the dump/recycling centre
Another picture of the tracks but they are now devoid of rocks.
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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

Big earth moving day! We nearly finished the new level for the driveway. I know when my hands are tired beacuse my right thumb gets shaky/tremor-y when I try to type on a phone. Quite difficult!

But it was a good day. Two big loads of lawn soil (top soil+sand) and one load of river rock. Probably will need one more of each but it was enough to get about 75%!
$40ea and $60 respectively.

Bonus: EV looks like it is on one of those fancy ramps at the car dealership. Lol. 😂 🚙

A picture from the front of the trailer, looking back toward the newly found level of brown dirt on top the light brown clay. There is a shovel on the rake.
A little further along. After the first load of the topsoil has been shovelled out of the trailer.
A large bulldozer dumps stone into the trailer
A blue car sits up with its front wheels on the newly placed river rock tracks around the tracks is fresh soil. It is dark.
#yardwork
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Good morning. ☮️✌️🪻

4 April 2025

Yesterday, we spent time working in the backyard. I repaired a hinge on the back gate and mowed the lawn for the first time this year. I also trimmed around the fence until the battery on my trimmer died—I had forgotten to recharge it after its last use. In that moment, I couldn’t help but think, 'What a wonderful feature: built-in breaks! 😂' It turned out to be the perfect excuse to call it a day. Meanwhile, my wife was busy in the raised garden, planting something new. I noticed several little seed packets in the kitchen, hinting at her plans. This is the first time in years that something other than weeds will grow in the garden. I can't help but wonder what’s gotten into us—where did this burst of energy come from? Must be biorhythms at work.

“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them—that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality.” - Lao Tzu

Flower Child This photograph captures the striking beauty of purple false foxgloves (Purple Gerardia), wildflowers I encountered in the area. To enhance its visual appeal, I creatively adjusted the light properties, introducing vibrant shades of orange, yellow, and blue into the background. The result is an image with a captivating, 60s-inspired psychedelic aesthetic. "This image showcases a close-up view of a flowering plant with purple blossoms and buds. The flowers have a delicate, slightly translucent quality to their petals. Surrounding the plant is a vivid, colorful background with shades of red, yellow, green, and blue, making the composition dynamic and artistic. The stems and buds are detailed, showing natural veins and a lush green hue. The combination of vibrant colors and soft floral textures creates a striking visual appeal." - Copilot
#photo#photography#nature
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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

Waiting for my first doordash order after spending some time in the yard today moving the project along...

Repurposed one of the garden boxes from the back where the new patio/bbq/paellaria will be beside the #poolPond to the front around the northern spy apple.

Also pulled the dead stuff from the front flower box and added new dirt.

Will need to get some fabric or chicken wire to keep the neighbour cats out of the apple tree box.

I look at the backyard. It's a bit of a disaster. But there is progress. The large pool is empty now as is the other two smaller holes. All of the extra rubber and garden liner is in a pile beside the dirt. The garden boxes have been removedcompletely as the mail felt that was underneath the car. There is fresh dirt turned over it all needs to be leveled.
A garden box is around a small apple tree on the left hand side of a small driveway. There's a car to the right and a trailer behind.
A small apple tree stands in a box of dirt on the right side of the picture. The box is long and goes along the bottom of the side of the house. The house is blue.
#garden#home#yardwork
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