Mr. Miyagi can eat my dust!  He might know a ton about Karate and philosophy my Bonsai tree is bigger than his :)  OK it really isn't a true Bonsai but it looks pretty nice on the corner of the lot.  From a patch of dead grass to this; I must say yard work is a nice change of pace from the normal activities of an IT Pro although I could do without the 40C humidex!

As you can see the other tonne of materials is still piled up next to the driveway.  That is for landscaping project number two!

You can see the high res photos on Flickr.  http://flickr.com/photos/rbuike/tags/planters/

Well with the 40C humidex we've had for the last 4-5 days it was bound to happen.  A big storm rolled in last night and I managed to snag some video of the lightening. I managed to snag a few stills with SnagIt.  I am constantly impressed with the quality of video and still photos this little Nikon S51c takes.  For $220 at Futureshop I really think you can't go wrong with it. 

Two metric tonnes or two thousand kilograms, 2200 pounds however you put it that is a lot and that is what I have piled in my front yard.  Summer is here (almost) and there is some landscaping we want to do so we now have a pile of top soil and a pallet of bricks that will be transformed into some retaining walls to border a few trees we have in the yard and create a flowerbed in the front corner of the yard.  After 6 hours of digging through some of the hardest clay imaginable, I have the blister to prove it....

....I got the grass removed and an area levelled out and am ready to lay some brink.  It is quite obvious that I have had more than a few easy years of work that has left my hands a little soft.  Oh well, a little blister never killed anyone and it'll look nice when done :)