So a couple weeks back, Laura’s parents decided they were going to give us their landscape bricks in their front yard. I guess they’ve decided to completely re-landscape their front yard, so they had all of these bricks they no longer needed.

Well, it didn’t take long for Laura to think of a use for them. She’s mentioned a couple times in the past that she’d like to plant a garden somewhere in the side yard, so these bricks now gave her an opportunity to get a raised bed garden. So we spent some time on Friday evening loading up all of the bricks from her parents and drove on home.

We ended up so busy on Saturday that we didn’t end up having the time to set up the bricks for the garden, so we had to play around with driving since we only had one vehicle to drive. We were approaching a problem in the fact that we really needed two vehicles to be able to attend church on Sunday, because Laura always goes ahead of me since she sings and has to get there early to practice.

So I decided I’d work on getting the bricks done in the hopes of freeing up the truck for me to drive. Well… It didn’t work out too well. By the time I got all of the bricks laid, it was already a half-hour into the church service, let alone giving me enough time to shower and drive on over. So I filled the bed in with 5 of our 6 bags of gardening soil and proceeded to work on the sand pit.

It’s not really a pit… Laura and I decided we needed to train Pepper to do her business in one area of the backyard because it’s difficult to clean up after her when she goes in the rocks. Thus, a sand pit.

Well, Laura ended up getting home before I made progress on that. We headed out, grabbed lunch and ran by Star Nursery to get the vegetables and flowers that we were going to plant in the new garden. When we got home, Laura went to work on that while I helped and also went over to rake out the area for the sand pit.

About 45 minutes later, we had the garden planted and the sand pit started. I knew I wasn’t going to have enough sand since I, at first, only used the excess sand from the brick levelling I did. I estimated I needed about 5 more bags to fill out the pit, so when Laura left for her choir concert (I was going to head out later to watch it once they started), I headed to Home Depot and grabbed the sand bags. I also got a short fence for it so that it would be relatively separated, save for a two-foot wide “entrance” for the dog. I got home and promptly filled it in, but couldn’t get the fence in all the way thanks to the monstrously hard ground that Vegas has.

What a day. What a day. I still need to wrap up the small fence, but that’s it. Slowly but surely we’re adding more landscape to our back and side yards.