Rocks!

We decided that putting mulch and bark chips in parts of our yard wasn't such a good idea because they rot, disintegrate, and get blown by the wind. So we got rocks. We called our friendly neighbor rock retailer, Staker Parson, and they informed us that the minimum purchase with delivery was 5 tons. "Awesome!" we though, before we realize that 5 tons is a really, really huge amount of rocks. But we have lots of places where to put rocks, so we are still positive that we'll find a place to put them all...

Rocks in the patch by the fence. Previously filled with decolored, patchy bark chips:

Rocks in our former "weed patch," now looking even better thanks to our cheap 1" rocks. They are actually very colorful, but only when they are wet. The rest of the time they look kind of dull, especially when they are dirty, which is most of the time, because, you know, they're rocks, and they're outside...

The remaining pile of rocks after applying said rocks everywhere we could think of:

Drama Gabe

The big "island" around the tree. We did this because we're sick of raking piles of pine needles every summer. Besides, the pine needles burn the grass, so that area always looks brownish anyway.

And finally, the boxes below our front windows. These "boxes" were covered in ugly, thorny bushes. We got rid of them, and a couple of years later, still no grass. one of them partly because of the toxic pine needles.

This one is not completely bordered with bigger rocks, but it will soon be. Sorry about the crappy picture:

General view of the yard now:

We're planning to put some rocks in the bare strip by the sidewalk fence, and some in the parking strip. I think we should have enough for both, but I'm sure that by the time we finish with all that, we're still going to have a mountain of rocks left.