Dead lawn after the first contractor sod job
Gravel removed from the lawn above (note the old patio extension in the foreground)
Second contractor sod job - and more gravel
Lawn after I removed gravel and repaired
New Japanese-style porch with extension and rock garden
Bonsai stand
Pine after repotting
Pine after wiring, with air-layer for branch removal
I can truly understand why the proverbial "they" always say that time flies when you're having fun. In my case, it applies to vacation time more than anything else.
I took the last two weeks off work, to use up some of 11 weeks of vacation I have on the books and to get some things done around the house, but in the blink of an eye the two weeks was gone. At least the first week felt like it lasted a few days, but I'm still trying to figure out where that second week went; it's like I went to sleep Sunday night and woke up Sunday morning a week later. It didn't "go by in a flash," nor was it a blur - it just vanished into the space-time continuum...or something like that.
Well I did keep busy. I began the two week break by trying to repair the back lawn (see 26 May entry) by removing all of the gravel that the contractors laid over the sod, filling it in with potting soil, then sowing some grass seed. Well, after just being told that they wouldn't do so, the contractors came in three days later and replaced about half of the sod -- incidentally planning it's demise by immediately covering it with gravel again. So I fixed it again just as soon as they left. I also rebuilt the back patio extension, decorated the porch and repotted several of my bonsai trees with the hope that I haven't killed any (or all) of them in the process.
I wonder, if I had just laid around for two weeks, watching TV and eating Doritos like Saddam, would time have passed any slower?
Japanese maple before potting
Large ball of roots
Roots after washing and combing
Roots after trimming
Fitting to new bonsai dish
Japanese maple repotted
Another repotted Japanese maple