When my dad was digging the trench for our new drainage pipe, he just kept running into all sorts of things. Chunks of concrete, old bricks, rocks, plastic bags, trash, etc. This is the norm around here. You can’t stick a shovel down more than about six inches without hitting something. So let’s have a […]
Glass, glass and more glass: More backyard finds
I mentioned before that I’ve found shards of glass in our backyard. Every time I dig a hole to plant something, I unearth some. And every time it rains, I can expect to find a few new pieces exposed on the surface of the dirt. I actually challenge myself to find at least two or three […]
More backyard treasures
With all the yardwork we’ve been doing, we’ve been uncovering a lot of treasures (trash?). Our house is 81 years old, so it’s anyone’s guess what might be lurking under the surface of the dirt. In some cases, I couldn’t even get a shovel down more than a few inches without hitting something. It’s been […]
My Weird Backyard
Our backyard has been long neglected. Definitely for longer than we’ve lived here, so I don’t feel totally guilty about how it looks. More on that in a later post. My dad surprised me this weekend by cleaning out some recurring vegetation and found a couple of “treasures.” The first is a poured concrete […]