Down the Garden Path

We solved a huge problem in our back yard this week. I was so DONE with the “flower bed” behind the house that I was ready to just spend millions of dollars building a deck over it and never seeing it again. But then, last Sunday, Chad and I had a brain wave: What if we rebuilt the most annoying part, the stone path that winds through?

This before picture is from last May, when everything happened months too early.

And from here, it doesn’t look so bad. But every single spring, I have had to pull up every single stone and pull weeds and rein in the dead nettle and lady’s mantle, and I had stolen some of the stones to use up front in the veg garden, and the part over  by the hose was just too horrible for words.

This is what we ended up doing:

We did half on Sunday afternoon, together, and then Aiden and I worked to finish the rest of it during the week.

After:

Now I don’t hate the backyard anymore! And it didn’t cost a million dollars! Maybe around $50, for all that pea gravel, and that, my friends, is totally worth it.