Gardening: When one small plan becomes a grand plan …
Whoever said money is no object (i.e. it does not matter how much something costs) has no brains! But then again, the one making the plans should also consider to check on his own brain once in a while. We started out with a simple plan which was to get a new lawn. The project has till now included, a new lawn (of course), a 15 meter extension to the garden wall, a new ramp down to the lower garden and more …
New garden wall with ramp
After leaving for Las Vegas our tenant started on the garden wall and its belonging ramp. Coming back from Vegas the ramp and most of the garden wall were done. What we needed to do now was to plant the seeds, but first we needed to make sure that everything was levelled. Meaning I had to do some more manual labour and turn the soil, mixing the shell sand into it by hacking the lumps of mud/clay-like soil to make it more airy. A good days work saw me done, and my wife and kids could start spreading the seeds. We had the neighbour’s kids over as well and gave the all a share of the fun. Fun for them, but also a lot of laughs for us as it proved hard to learn 4-6 years old kids own to spread the seeds sufficiently around. Most of the time they ended up in small heaps here and there. Nevertheless, we managed to get things done 
A week later a new garden wall was in place as well, and we could start to level the garden on the short-end of the house up against the new wall … or so we thought.
Neighbour´s old sewage pipes
Our tenant had of course bumped into our neighbour’s sewage lines. To make sure we did not end up with the blame for anything we called our neighbour and asked him to drop by and investigate the pipes himself before we covered it up again, but again so we thought. A couple of hours after his arrival our tenant had himself a new job of replacing the old pipes with new ones, finishing off the job our neighbour started a couple of years back himself. This means he will get connected to the public sewage lines, and hopefully that will mean the end of his old sewage tank!
The general idea with the sewage pipes is to crush the old ones and use the remains as bedding for the new pipes. Just pouring gravel and sand into the ditch will not last long before it´s washed away. A lot of water has been running underground for many years, undermining the old pipes to great extent. Hopefully the new ground work will be better …
So, to the new plans for the garden, and this is where the small plan got out of proportions, which is to build a new walkway around the house and up to the backside of the garden with a larger ramp enabling us to reach the back with lawn movers and other equipement. The new path will also mean tearing down and rebuilding the path reaching the main entrance to the house, and in the process making the ground low enough for a veranda to be built over it.
More to come as work progresses …
