Tolentreasures

A little over a week ago it looked like this http://tolentreasures.blogspot.com/2010/03/dirt-everywhere.html I thought it would take all summer to get it back. Last night with the help of that backhoe that you see in the background of this pic, John and I managed to get it back this far. I have MORE blisters. My summer hands have had too long of a rest! And thanks to the guys that dug it up to begin with, the path was not so hard to put back together. The rock wall was a bit of a challenge, but I persevered. This is my little kitchen garden. It is right under my kitchen window and I plant fresh herbs, you can barely see the perennial chives and sage and thyme that are already growing there and managed to survive the beating that they took. A tomato plant, some onions and a few pepper plants and it makes the perfect size, manageable garden for me. Now to plant some grass! When I hit the chair last night, I finally managed to finish this penny rug. Not sure who it is for,...

This is what my yard looked like when I came home from work today. I knew that they were going to dig, but nothing really prepared me for this. The GAS company (follow any of my earlier rants) decided to replace the lines in the ditch across from our house over a year ago. Ever since we have had water in the basement of our house. See that hill across the road? Apparently there were some good springs on that hill that ran out in the ditches that the gas company closed in. It even blew up the middle of the road one time. Since the pecking order in all of life is this, First: God, Second: IRS, Third: Peoples Natural Gas Company of Pennsylvania, and from what I see, God and the IRS are hanging onto their spots by a thin line right now, we were left to somehow fix the problem ourselves. So here we go! We have to redirect the water that they redirected onto us to somewhere else. Will it be someone else's problem now? I don't think so, but who knows? In the meantime, we have dirt (m...