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Keeping Rosie Happy!

Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2012 8:08 pm
by Barnyard
Rosanne has been after me to do something with her weed flower bed around the flag pole for quite a while. Yesterday while looking through craigslist I found an ad for landscape retaining wall blocks. The guy had 150 used ones for $50.00. That's not bad since new ones are about $1.80 each. Naturally being the cheap guy I am I have to give the guy a call. He said to come and get them. They were still lining his patio and we had to take them around to the front but that was no big deal. I ended up with almost 200 of those suckers (about 25 cents a piece) and Rosie finally got her border.

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It looks like it is uneven but when I ran a level across it there were no dips in it. There is a low spot in the yard there so I figured it is an optical illusion.

Re: Keeping Rosie Happy!

Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2012 8:20 pm
by Rudi
Nicely done Bill, Rosie should like that :D

Re: Keeping Rosie Happy!

Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2012 8:35 pm
by ricky racer
WOW!! That's amazing!! I didn't know you knew which end of the shovel to use!! Oh yeah, the flower bed looks great too! Great job!! Image

Re: Keeping Rosie Happy!

Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2012 8:49 pm
by danovercash
Looks good, Bill. If you lived closer, I'd give you a bucket of bulbs! (buttercup & iris and maybe some daylilies)

Re: Keeping Rosie Happy!

Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2012 9:00 pm
by John *.?-!.* cub owner
Nice job, had it been me however, they would be forming a nice solid flat area around the pole covering up the weeds. :lol:

Re: Keeping Rosie Happy!

Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2012 9:31 pm
by Scrivet
All those Cubs and all the implements that go with them...... and you're using a shovel!?!?!? :?
I guess that proves that you need another Cub, with the implement for putting rocks around the flagpole.

Re: Keeping Rosie Happy!

Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2012 10:07 pm
by Barnyard
ricky racer wrote:WOW!! That's amazing!! I didn't know you knew which end of the shovel to use!! Oh yeah, the flower bed looks great too! Great job!!

Eight years working in excavating taught me everything I want to know about shovels from digging out ditches (especially the one that caved in on a co-worker! He lived.) to cleaning the dozer tracks with a duckbill. Oh boy, those were the days! :lol:

John *.?-!.* cub owner wrote:Nice job, had it been me however, they would be forming a nice solid flat area around the pole covering up the weeds.

If I had to do it over, there would be grass all around that pole that I could mow.

danovercash wrote:Looks good, Bill. If you lived closer, I'd give you a bucket of bulbs! (buttercup & iris and maybe some daylilies)

Dan, you'd have to give them to Rosie. I'm not much of a flower child. :lol:

Scrivet wrote:All those Cubs and all the implements that go with them...... and you're using a shovel!?!?!? :?
I guess that proves that you need another Cub, with the implement for putting rocks around the flagpole.

Did Mott or Woods or maybe even Prewitt make a rock placement implement. :) If I had this in my driveway I would have saved some work!

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Re: Keeping Rosie Happy!

Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2012 5:27 am
by John(videodoc)
swee t Bill, You are welcome to come do one for me.

Re: Keeping Rosie Happy!

Posted: Wed May 02, 2012 11:21 am
by Pabst
Great job Bill! :D

Re: Keeping Rosie Happy!

Posted: Thu May 03, 2012 4:13 am
by Yogie
Really nice upgrade Bill, looks great...
You did get all the building permits required didn't you. :wink: :lol:
We hope to see it up close pretty soon. :{_}:

Re: Keeping Rosie Happy!

Posted: Thu May 03, 2012 7:00 am
by Bill E Bob
Well done and good exercise (BTDT) :wink:

Re: Keeping Rosie Happy!

Posted: Thu May 03, 2012 7:02 am
by Tezell
Looks good Bill.