My Kind of Building

I have a vision for around all the power poles, breaker boxes and Power Company box.  I love to take an ugly area and make it beautiful.  The area on the west side of the West Wing will at some point be heavily landscaped but without a sprinkler system I will not attempt to keep plants alive during Oklahoma summers.

We brought these retaining wall blocks home not knowing what they would be used before. They have just been sitting there. They looked as if they had a  purpose but we knew better.

 I am home alone and need to move these babies.The big ones can weigh 80-120 pounds. I can't move that much weight by myself. Hm-m-m-m, what do we have that would work. Aha, the old flexible toboggans. We have had these for over 20 years and still use them when there is snow.

 I would roll the rock onto the toboggan and then it moved easily where I needed it. Easily may not be the right word. It was still dragging a large rock up a slight hill. But it wasn't a struggle.

 The long ones had to go on at an angle. If anything hung over the edge and caught on the grass the rock would slide off.

 This is where they are going. Once the power to the heat and air is run and my trench is filled in all this rock will be pushed in tight against the ugly necessities. The rock will be leveled and using a variety of small rock with the big ones it will curve very nicely. I sprayed the grass with grass killer today, I'll put landscape fabric down and then top it with Decomposed Granite. 

We have pallets of rock stored all around the property for when we need something. Wish we had brought more home from the rock yard but we didn't want to junk the place up too much.