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#yardwork

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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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Swede’s Photographs

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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Carson Hill 📎

Before and after photos from Friday -

My wife and I cleared away a broken tree branch from our neighbor's plum tree. Lots of sawing, lopping, and dragging of tree limbs, then raking up smaller branches.

Left a bit of it behind since it was too heavy to drag and my arm was too worn out from the saw to cut it.

A couple large branches have broken off of the plum tree in the foreground, stretching across the lawn.
The beach has been cleared away, aside from a thick section of lower trunk that now lies behind the mailboxes.
#yardwork#gardening
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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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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

Fun fact: One of the main reasons I started on this journey of reimagining our front and back yard was because mowing the lawn felt utterly stupid and pointless. Especially the front yard which is why I made the ponds and gardens there during the pandemic. My goal is not to remove the natural surface but instead to just have nice grassy (or alternative-planty) pathways. #BackyardProject #yardwork #diy #home #gardening #pondLife #portAlberni

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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

Progress! We have to clear out everything to the right of the garden boxes so that we can lift almost all the grass, dig a trench for power and water to the shed, and dig the three holes for the pool-pond, pond filter, and intake bay next Saturday!

Goodbye fire pit! You served us well and will be reincarnated elsewhere! Goodbye garden boxes! You will make way to store the car for now and later, a greenhouse!
#BackyardProject #yardwork #diy #home #gardening #pondLife #portAlberni

Amount of dirt lies between two rows of garden boxes in a small yard.
The outline of a round fire pit
A wide view of the backyard
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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

This is step... 3? (after the side path and the tool locker under the deck) of a much larger backyard project that will see the end of our old shed, the building of a new (large)greenhouse/(small)car workshop, and... a natural pool with bog style filter! Amongst many other things. Anyone else use OmniGraffle? Love that app! So useful for this kind of layout. Here's a pic to compare with the design posted on our backroom wall! #yardwork #digdug #PortAlberni #gardening #BackyardProject

A .5 wide shot of our backyard. It is quite long covered mostly in grass. There is a medium size hazelnut tree just to the right of center. There are various tools and other household items around the yard as I move things around. A small chicken coop is to the left. Some stairs go up to the deck from a cement landing in the bottomleft corner.
A picture of a diagram shows the backyard from above. A large blue rectangle and circular blue area are the pond and filter. Various other shapes are all around the rest of the perimeter of the yard including the greenhouse or car shed. Sitting area. Some garden boxes for food. The chicken coop. And Stone for path.
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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

Pre-high-noon-heat yard work is done for the day. Managed to finish spreading rock for the landing under the deck. Got another load (700kg!) of rock from the concrete place. Shoveled some of that around, then took a break, had some food, and just now did 30 final minutes in the 32°C+ heat digging out the pad for the small metal shed.
33.9°C on the yard station (@alberniweather)when I walked in the door at 1PM!
Siesta time!
#yardwork #portAlberni #heat #heatwave

Fresh grey 1" river rock is spread out evenly at the top of some cement stairs that go down into a basement door. To the left is a grey tall narrow tool shed.
A small aluminium trailer is filled with rock.
A roughly rectangular area of 7x4 feet has dirt turned over beside a fence, some plants and an old shed. A shovel is leaning against a small hand trailer.
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Edge 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈

Needed to cut back some massively overgrown "ground cover" creeping juniper (that is way too big for the spot, but that's another story.) About 45 feet of it overhanging the boulder retaining wall.

Am still vertical, but barely. It was a lot more work than it appears. I like those rocks, and the juniper will creep again...

A half-boulder retaining wall surrounds 3 Hinoki cypress trees on the outside of a metal fence, with sloping green lawn in front of it. (The trees are very squirrely-looking, with pointed, open branches, and curling tops. After 6 years they've barely grown at all, and look more like statuary.) Up on the level with the trees, and cascading down over the 12-18" tall boulders that make up the wall is some light green evergreen ground cover, some of it reaching apparently 2 feet into the yard. Not, perhaps, the perfectly-sized ground cover for the space. The photo shows where I began hacking, er, carefully cutting the juniper back on the right, exposing the rocks again, and neatening the area. I also cleverly waited until the sun had reached this spot. The green was nice, but I like those rocks. The juniper will grow again...
#Landscaping#Plants#Yardwork
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