Backyard Project

Sometimes I need to remind myself that life is a marathon! We are constantly subjected to people showing us how amazing there lives are through there social media. Yes they might be doing more than us but we don't and will never know the real story like we know our own.

So right now my life is a juggling act between paying off my debt and using the spare cash I have to enrich my families life. Unfortunately often this means we focus on improveing our house or personal space which are not enviable events. This year we have focused on decorating our down stairs, building the aquaponics system and improving our outside space for the summer. I have really enjoyed being outside with both my boys they have absolutely loved spending the last week with me outside while laying our paving, now I love the feeling of giving my family a place to sit in the sun 

It is really rewarding doing stuff for yourself before I got on this path I would have always got someone to do everything for me. This is not how it should be we should live to the standard of our own skill. With the introduction of the internet there is nothing you can learn to do, sometimes its just about the effort required to do it. This patio took me two weeks on my own I shovel about 8 tons of solid and replaced it with 6 tons of sand and stone, it was back breaking work but it's done now so the hard work has all been forgotten.

I now have a mountain of soil I need to find a home for again it's my waste so I want to find a way to get rid of it.

 So my father in law decided to build some raised flower beds around his paving luckily for me he live around the corner and said I could fill them with the earth from my build. 15 wheelbarrows later it looks like I hardly touch the mound. The raised beds look really good so I decided to make my own. These should help get rid of some of the soil

Which finished of the paved area nicely and got rid of a few barrows of earth.

To use up the last of the solid and make sure of some old pallets I made this large corner raised bed. It will probably take me 5 years to fill this garden but I cant wait to start laying out the bed.

Again not exciting but its has been hours of constructive entertainment and when it comes to planting that will be an opportunity for the rest of the family to get stuck in. I started this blog post as I was bored but while writing about it I realised it's not boring it's just different, and if you stop and think about it even a seemingly mundane period can yield a interesting result.