Scalloped or not scalloped?

Our front yard is cheesy. We have a large red clay washout where erosion has slowly taken our yard down the drain. We also have bushes camouflaged by overgrown grass and falling brick edgers.

Fresh off weed mutilation with our new trimmer, I decided to take on the foul bushes that line our front porch.

I raked the wood chips aside to get a clear shot at the pesky grass (how is it grass grows where you don't want it, but not in the yard where we need it?). I pulled and pulled. I thought I was making good progress.

That is, until I stood up from my little patch to find that I was only about one-third of the way through. Angry at the flower bed, I yanked up all the scalloped brick edgers and banished them to the garage. But what to do with them after that?

Hmm...

I really don't mind brick. In fact I planned to buy actual bricks and do a double line of bricks like I saw in one of the fancy decorators' magazines. That plan was derailed when I realized how heavy such a small load would burden my compact car.

The scalloped edge was what was bugging me. I have nothing against other yards that use scalloped brick edging, but it's too close to stone doilies for me.

But the clean bottom edge seemed right up my alley. Flipping them upside down was the solution.

I started digging a little trench for my new-to-me edgers. And that's where the entry ends. The weeding was started, but not finished. The edgers were partially installed, but not finished.

Perhaps if the mood strikes, when I look at the front yard in a few days and say, "ech, it looks cheesy," then I will continue my decheesing. Until then, I need some tea and a cold shower.