The Runs are UP!

I have not been a total slacker! Just slacking off updating this blog.  The runs are up!  Managed to get them up last weekend.  Could not have happened without the help of Heather and Donald, THE BEST NEIGHBORS IN THE WORLD!  

It was stinking hot Sunday and Monday and those were the days I moved pavers, transplanted some hostas, put up the runs.  And it was 95F in the Shade. 

The weather is not condusive to the plantings I want to do, but now at least, I have three runs and a "puppy pen" up.

Grace and Wasp are in the end run with the dog house, Ben is in the middle, and for now, I have the third run split in half for the Lakie boys.  Sky and Nomar occupy the puppy pen.  Each pen has it's own water bucket and clip!  I knew I was collecting extra buckets for a reason!

I still have to put on top the shade cloth, which I may do today, I can use cable ties to fasten it to the pen. I had to cut down a branch from the tree, so I have a bit more sun than I'd like (especially right now when it's sooo hot).  Each run will have a nice dog bed or dog house of some kind as soon as I can find what I really like.

The ground is not as level as I would have liked.  In fact,it's barely level at all.  I will have to get some paver/play sand and sweep it into the cracks to "cement" in the pavers, a few are a bit wobbly. I tried to put some dirt underneath the unlevel ones, but I know I missed more than a few.

Now to tackle the landscaping, the dead lawn and the front door area...