Post #223940 by Loki on Thu, Mar 30, 2006 6:25 AM

Alright gang, its been a long time since a post. However, we have been very busy. The west side of our house had a serious water drainage problem. Last year we dug up the old weed infested sod and threw new sod. The problem was with the new sod, the soil became like an impervious barrier and would not allow water to drain. The moisture problem caused the grass to die and left 4 inches of the non draining soil. Long story, we dug a massive french drain, channeled the water away from the house and put in gutters. End of water problem. The next task was landscaping an area that would not grow grass. So, we designed a plan that elimanated all sod and used hard scaping instead, along with plant beds that would be mulched with pine nuggets or stones. Being that we have a collection of tikis, we thought we'd use them as features along the path. The tiki gardern was born. Currently is has a few tikis Stumpgrinder and i made and a GMAN tiki made during the South Florida Tiki Jam. We have some lighting in there but we are going to be redoing it this weekend to really make it pop. It looks amazing at night, so hopefully i will have some new pics to share next week. These are just a few teazer photos.

We are also resodding the rest of the yard, and removing the existing sod is quite a task and eats into our weekends. Thankfully, Helztiki and AlohaStation gave us some motivation to start carving again. We will be posting some new tikis real soon. We really enjoyed working on this project together and are most pleased with the turn out. Keep checking in for the better pics and the night shots. Thanks for looking.