WATER BEFORE THE FOUNTAIN

When you're in the beginning of a long term renovation of a house

AND  a yard...

just because you know what you want doesn't always mean 

you get what you know you want

right?

Our dream was an old world fountain to go in the

side yard garden

something similar to the above

with our fountain project I truly became aware of how isolated we really are

in the northeast corner of the Texas Panhandle.

by the time we found our fountain

we had already built our rock walls and fence

which led to some real issues

like that the kid who sold us the fountain told us it weighed around 300 pounds

make that 3000!

I'm guessing the tall part weighs 300

but first things first...

(does it seem like we always have a pile of something to you?

man it does to me!)

while we were waiting on finding a fountain

we just made the best use of the space and the extra stone we had

for our veggie and herb garden

after the fountain was delivered from Amarillo and sat in our driveway for 2 months

(does it always seem like we have stuff in our driveway to you? 

 remember the bathtub on the Been's wedding day?)

while we tried to figure out how we were going to get it from point A to point B...

....came the man chore of filling in the path with pea gravel

our pea gravel is really oilfield fill gravel for rigs

not completely different that what you might see in France

tee hee

we, mostly he...laid the tarp, rearranged the rock and shoveled in the gravel

with a wheelbarrow because our gates are too small for anything but that

our help was beyond cool!

and so the time comes

for the heroes of the day to appear

with just the right size of equipment

one to remove the gate

one to guide the way

one to take the pictures

and all to say

"whew"

got that part done

stay tuned! the project has just moved past the dream stage!