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Saturday, September 25, 2010

A Work in Progress......

We have WORKED ALL SUMMER on our yard. We dug a hole and put our tramp in the ground, put in a sprinkler system, leveled it, weeded it, raked it, weeded it, got curbing, weeded it, put together our play set, WEEDED IT, planted trees and shrubs, WEEDED IT, shoveled cow poop on the whole thing, planted grass, WEEDED IT, put down mulch, put in gravel, and now we need to WEED IT AGAIN! I guess that's what we get for building in an Alf Alfa field.

It is still a work in progress, we still have LOTS of work to do NEXT YEAR!

Before:





After:

Our grass is coming in pretty good in the front, the back is another story.....



Shrubs are still small, but hopefully by next year they will be bigger...

Ignore the WEEDS in the play area, we still need to put something down in there....

Our door never matched our front arch so I finally made myself redo it....and it was a PAIN!
This is what it looked like before......
Here it is all sanded......

Here it is stained the RIGHT color.....

And the finished product! (bad glare)








3 comments:

Rachael said...

Nice job!!! Have you thought about putting down that mulch/;rubbery stuff they use at playgrounds? My friend bought some online and they put it under their playground set. Its a great idea!

Ashley said...

Looks great! I can't even imagine how hard it is to put in a yard from scratch.

The door looks great! You should have your own HGTV show. I'd totally watch it.

Palmers said...

Looks like a lot of work. It makes me tired just thinking about doing all of that:) We have thought about building again but I don't want to do another yard, it is a ton of work. You guys have done a great job though I'm sure you are so happy to have it all done. Now the shrubs can start growing:)