My Unwanted Rock Garden

When we moved into our house, there was a huge eye sore that I knew needed to be taken care of---this huge bed of rocks (of all sizes) that were left in the middle of our beautiful green lawn where they had taken up this "yard well" that I guess they used as a lawn decoration. I was glad they took it up, because that is just not my style. However, in its place they dumped what seemed to be a million rocks.

The first month we were there, the girls and I removed a box full of them, but it seemed never ending, so we quit with the thought of returning to it another day. Well that day never came until last Tuesday. Last Tuesday, the girls were outside swimming and I was going to get in with them, but I kept looking at those rocks and decided it was time for them to go. They had been messing up the beauty of our yard long enough. I wish I had taken a picture before I started so you could have seen what a mess it was. Boy was it a lot of work.

Here is a picture of part of our yard.

Imagine over to the left of the first

palm tree, a huge rock pile.

This is what was left when most of the rocks, bricks, yes bricks were under the rocks were removed. We are going to buy some grass sprigs to put down there.

Here are the rocks I removed on Tuesday evening. Don't forget we also removed a medium size moving box of rocks when we first moved in. I was dumb because I put the box out for the garbage truck to pick up and when they lifted it with the machine they have the box fell apart and I was left with rocks to pick up again! DUH?? OH the rocks I removed are just those on the sidewalk, the rocks behind it are part of a rock bed that we are keeping.