We like digging ditches

FINALLY got all of the English Ivy out of the landscaping. Trimmed up the shrubs we're going to keep. Cut down the ones we aren't. Jeremy still has to rent a stump grinder, but in the mean time, he got an itch to start on the front walkway this weekend. We're going to remove the present steps and the rotting wooden "columns", move the steps to in front of the door, and replace the columns with something more elegant and less "country". There are a few shrubs in the way now, but we plan on keeping them and transplanting elsewhere. We've started to dig the trench for the new walkway. We're going to add the appropriate amount of compacted gravel and then sand before putting down the new cobbled pavers. Not like the hack who built the house and put the bricks on a half inch of sand right on the dirt. Can you say heaving and settling??? And he is supposedly a professional landscaper...still has his business in the area.....will never hire him!!

Hopefully it doesn't rain this weekend so we can get some more done before it gets too cold out. Jeremy has to rent a jackhammer because the old steps were brick laid over a solid poured concrete. I tried to break it up with our sledge hammer, but even all of my pent up frustrations couldn't crack the concrete.....