Landscaping...a back-breaking project

This morning we started a landscaping project that's going to be a lot more work and take a lot more time than I anticipated. I knew it'd be hard work, but geesh...this is rough! I think that when it's finished, it'll look really nice though. We're replacing all of the timbers with small boulders and all of the mulch/river rock with something else. We haven't decided what kind of rock we're going to put down, but we don't want mulch and the bigger rock isn't conducive to growing plants, so we thought it was time for something new.

Unfortunately, we don't have a truck. Jason's poor little car was loaded to the max (well maybe not, but we didn't want to test the max out). In our first trip, we hauled 506 pounds. Can you believe that just around that tree is a quarter of a ton of rock?? Crazy! Then we went back and hauled another 464 pounds of rock. We put the rock in the trunk and in the backseat to distribute the weight, so that we weren't dragging the ground.


Today, we just laid down the edging around one tree, so here's the before...

...during (Jason is obviously slacking off a little bit)...

...and here's the after!