stuck

I was feeling so excited about our new back garden and then suddenly, I got stuck. Really stuck.

Our cement backyard is a real quagmire. Mark tried breaking holes in it with a sledge hammer to plant the bamboo--no dice, way too hard to even make a chip in it.

So we rented a cement saw from Home Depot. We worked on it together for a few hours, very slow going. There was definitely something we weren't doing right.

Our friend Stacy recommended a neighbor who does all kinds of handyman type jobs and he came over to help. He sawed throw the perimeter of our little cement jungle in about 2 hours. It probably would have taken us days. His name was Jesus and he indeed saved the day.

Yet, one minute Jesus was there and one minute he virtually vanished into thin air. He promised to return the following week with his sledge hammer and remove the cement but days passed, then weeks, then months, no word from Jesus.

All we had to show was a line carved in the cement but still a backyard filled with cement.

I tried to find someone else to jack hammer the cement, a recommendation from another friend. We spoke about the job, he was reluctantly interested. Maybe jack hammering is the worst job of all time and no one wants to do it? He too, disappeared and never returned my phone call again.

Then, I ran into another friend and he recommended someone else and finally our cement jungle has been liberated!

He came and jack hammered out a beautiful border that's now almost filled with plants. What a difference!