Almost Every Square Inch Covered...

 Growing up, we lived on the side of a mountain, and I mean that literally. On the other side of our driveway was mountain and all that that entails.

In short...we had undeveloped earth right next door.

I'm used to a yard that's untamed, sort of wild. Others are not.

This is our third spring at our new location. The first summer we put in a yard complete with grass and a sprinkling system. Last year we put down fabric and covered it with little rocks to keep the weeds in check. We surrounded the house with this rock barrier. Still, there were areas on our lot that were uncovered, and thus, prone to the explosion of weeds.

This spring, we're out to cover up almost every square inch.

Last week we put down fabric and covered up much of our weed-infested front yard. It looks so much better. Next, we covered the slope in the back yard. We didn't have time to cover it with rocks--that's a project for another day. It got me thinking--when we're done, we'll have the flower beds in the front yard and the raspberry plants in the back. Everything else is covered by concrete, grass, fabric and small rocks. It's amazing the lengths we're going to just to make sure what grows is what we want to grow and keep out everything else.

Over the past three seasons, I've collected rocks in one section of the back yard. They were too small to place somewhere else. There's so many of them. The problem is I have to basically move each one by hand, one-by-one. It's going to take a while to clear out that pile.

Like everything else, yard work is never-ending. Where we live yard work is interrupted by winter, so we get a break, but as sure as morning follows night, spring follows winter and we're at it again. Hopefully, the work we do now will help in the future.

We'll see.