Our Concrete Home

We hired help to get our grading worked on.  It really helped us out.  Now it's up to us to finish the leveling, pull out rocks, set the sprinklers and get everything in order for the sod on Sept 9th!  Our side porch often looks like this right now....we bring in half the dirt from our yard into our house... Brent and Cole outlined all of our flower beds with steel (which will rust!). Required some welding, good thing we have two welders in the family!  Pad for the BBQ and pizza oven in the backyard...  Parking pad...  Front sidewalk leading up to the house...  Parking pad poured!!!  This is our beautiful but useless pumpkin plant.  Gorgeous big plant...not one pumpkin. Disappointed! Same thing happened with our tomatoes, boo!

Oh Happy Happy Day! We are working on our landscape! It was put on hold until we finished landscaping at one of our apartments.  We dug out and replaced a main water line which destroyed the landscape at the apartment.  It was a major project for us in May and the beginning of the summer.  However, it allowed us to install sprinklers and lay sod which was a good learning lesson for us. We dug trenches in July.  One Saturday was spent running the water line to the backyard and installing 3 secondary water spigots.  That was a beautiful site to behold looking at water running from each of those spigots. Brent and I sound awful with all of our complaints of aches and pains.  It was a lot of bending and positioning awkwardly in ditches.  A lot of physical labor but SO WONDERFUL to be working on our own yard!  It's going to be beautiful....just going to take some time!  Brent and Cole installed a rain collection barrel and we have used it ...