Well that was a long hiatus from blogging. It seems like 4 years went by in a flash! What has been happening? We purchased a 1934 little fixer upper in July of 2021. September we started demolition and for the next 8 months we were in rehab mode. We took one day off, Christmas Day 2021. We moved in March of 2022 and continued to work on completion of the interior. This old house could be a blog all by itself but I am a gardener so I am going to stay in my lane. The 900 square foot house sits on a large lot near downtown Redmond and it was a rental property for many years before we bought it. The yard was filled with dead weeds, junky trees, multiple fences, old septic tanks, piles of wood and tons of broken glass. The irrigation system was mostly stubbed off and buried. Once we dug it all up and found all the heads, repaired the breaks and added to it, it works fine. We excavated loads of dead tree roots, old tools, car parts, metal pipes, toys and more glass. A good friend who is an arborist came and removed the two large trees for us and ground up the stumps. Once that was done we tilled the entire yard and removed the dead sod. June 2022 we started with dirt and an old but functional irrigation system. My husband doesn’t like mowing so we determined that landscaping with retainer block and gravel paths would be best. The first order of business shown below was to remove two trees and the piles of debris left by the former residents. This is a view of the back of the property after most of the great clean up showing our friend grinding the last of the cottonwood stump. I like starting with a clean slate.
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