This afternoon we had 39 shrubs to plant and several planting beds to make with top soil and sand. We got four beds tilled and planted 28 shrubs! The beds are beside the patio and beside the pool. We also planted 7 azalea bushes in random places on the hill behind the pool as well as some taller legustrum behind the waterfall to hide the pump and gardenias beside the waterfall. Jordan hauled wagon loads of shrubs and dirt and sand to us and put them by each work place for hours and then placed all the stepping stones leading from the patio to the pool. In order to make the stones look good, he used a long planting knife and hammer and kind of traced around each stone to cut the sod underneath it. Then he pulled that piece of sod out and planted it somewhere else in the yard and put sand underneath the stone. They look awesome and it was long and tedious work. Bruiser ran out of the house and sat in Jordan's lap for a while to encourage him. He had the whole fenced in back yard but preferred to sit with Jordan for a long time.
It got hot today and Jordan jumped in the pool several times to get cool. The chemicals are not in the pool just yet but it is okay to jump in and swim around for a little while. Jay did the same thing when we got completely finished. The three of us are exhausted from working so hard two days in a row! Savannah came home last night and today she and Ryan ran to Home Depot for us to get more stepping stones and bags of mulch. We mulched all the planting beds when we got finished today. It looks great! Lots more to do but we will focus on that at a slower pace now that we accomplished so much this weekend.
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