Last year, husband put in a walkway using flagstones, sand, and breeze (photos of it here). Last week, the sand and breeze got washed away by the rainstorm that lasted all evening and through the night (the family even hid under the basement stairs for awhile during the tornado sirens). We're now getting an assessment... Continue Reading →
Backyard Finally Done!
Our backyard is finally done. To see the before photos with similar views of the images above, go here. Here are more before and after: The grass does look a little funny with the two colors but it's because they were from two different harvest. One was harvested before the other. They are the same... Continue Reading →
Wanna See River Rocks?
I finally got the rock photos cropped and posted! Husband has only used about 25% of the rocks in the backyard and it's almost completely covered. I wonder if we ordered too much. Kylie is plugging her ears running down to where her dad was standing. It was really loud. See the rocks on the... Continue Reading →
Trenching the Yard
[8.2011: Kylie doing a balancing act] The backyard landscaping is moving along slowly but it's starting to take shape. I could almost see what it'll end up looking like. Husband and my father-in-law (FIL) trenched the yard a couple of weeks ago for the sprinkler system. Man, that was serious labor. This machine looks very... Continue Reading →