Our yard project

For those of you who haven't heard, we have been undertaking a MAJOR yard overhaul these past few weeks. When we bought this house, only about half of the backyard was completed. The back half was as wild as can be - and not in a nice way. It was full of rocks and weeds, and was basically a real mess. And let's face it. Builders aren't landscapers and they really don't put in the highest quality grass and shrubs. So we're facing this major project, and frankly not at all excited about putting in a bunch more of this terrible grass that we currently had. So thanks to an unusually large tax refund, and landscape companies that are willing to bargain for business, we ripped out all of our existing grass and shrubs and re-did the whole yard! Of course this entailed extending the sprinklers, getting a blueprint for what we wanted the new yard to look like, and harassing poor unsuspecting neighbors (and neighbors of friends!) about their type of grass. We were quite annoying, I'm sure. But at the end of the day (well, more accurately, at the end of 13 days of a 5 man team working 10 hour days) we have a beautiful new yard!! It has been very, very exciting to watch the progress, and to see our idea turn into reality. So I realize that we've included about as many pictures of this yard as people add of a newborn child, but hey...we're excited! The first 4 pictures are the "before" pictures, followed by two "during" pictures, and then the finished product! Well, almost. We still have lights that will go up in the trees in the backyard, a raised garden bed over on the side (in the big empty rectangle) and then our fire pit and additional chairs to go in the crushed granite seating area. Wish us luck in the upkeep! We may never be seen again, since we'll be mowing and weeding every weekend away. Oh well. P.S. I have no idea why or how this font is underlined. No clue. Nor how to change it. Sorry!








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