| Well it's been awhile...much longer than I thought...since I last posted. We have been working slowly but surely on the house and in my opinion it's starting to look REALLY good! There is still a lot of work to go but considering we've only been here just a little over a year...we are making some great progress :) |
This summer, we have worked a bunch on the yard! There were lots of pavers, rocks, and random "landscaping" things that made for a very weird backyard. So we removed all of the rocks, all of the pavers, and all of the other random things (for instance a tire planter box...) We also removed about 14 trees that were dead, or too intertwined with the other trees, it really opened up the yard, but we still have LOTS of shade which is nice :) One of the trees we removed was FULL of carpenter ants...it was awful...but we took care of all of that and then had 14 yards of dirt dumped in our backyard so we could attempt to level it out a bit.
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| Cutting down trees |
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| Pile-O Dirt..... |
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| Rock (this wasn't even all of it...) |
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| See... more rocks |
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| Pavers |
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We kept these pavers, and used some of the
others to clean it up and make it look nice:)
see picture below as well :) |
We tried to use as many of the rocks and pavers as possible so we didn't have to haul as many to the dump. So we got rid of the wood boxes around the planter type areas and Todd landscaped them with rock around instead. I think he did a great job!
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We moved all of the rose bushes that were randomly around the backyard and
planted them in the planter area next to the drive way! ...Some survived :) haha |
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This area had some rocks already, but Todd cleaned it up and made a larger
planter area, and cleared the access to under the house. |
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| More planter box areas we replaced the wood with rock. |
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We also planted some TREES! :)
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We ripped out the sidewalk that went in-between these bushes
since it will never be used... |
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| We trimmed the bushes :) |
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| Took a lot of loads to the dump... |
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| And enjoyed every minute of it :) ....maybe not every... |
It looks so good! I noticed awhile ago that the city put some grass on your side yard! That makes it nice since it seems like it is your yard :)
ReplyDeleteSo glad you finally posted!! I LOVE it. It sounds like so much fun to work on everything together and see the transformation! Good thing both of you are so good at it!
ReplyDeleteThanks you guys! it is a lot of fun watching it transform... even though it probably looks like we are making more progress to you than to me haha i have to look back through pictures to make myself feel like i've accomplished something :)
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