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Thursday, February 28, 2008

End in sight!











So, are yard is almost ready for sod! Do you have any idea how exciting this is!!!!!!! I"m so so so excited! It has been a long process. We've been doing it by ourselves.....majority of it! We had a huge huge hedge that we took out along our back wall......raised the wall(got help with that). Took down the cute play area down(it was pretty much falling anyway), had to dig down and make a cement outline along the house(we put our handprints in it!), tons of moving cement rocks, building a deck(don't worry, we did get help to finish it). Now, we were able to get a lot of dirt(a lot!) moved into the back yard to level the yard out more evenly since it was a major slope. Don't worry, the pile out in the front of our house was only half of what was there, now all is in back plus another huge pile that we already had moved back there from before. Kelli(mcarthur) and I spent many good times out there shoveling and barreling it back......thanks girl and all the neighbors that helped! We'd still be there working on it! Tons and tons of rodotilling since our yard was pretty much rock before and you have to have like 4 in. of good soil for the grass to grow! No wonder nothing grew! Now, were putting tar stuff(seriously looks very similar to the famous tar poop of newborns) on our wall so it doesn't leak through the wall into our neighbors. We will plant some trees and a make a little plant box, get our sprinklers in next week............and just keep treating the soil for sod! Yes! In a few weeks will be done with the back yard! My girls will be so excited to have a place to play! Yay!

3 comments:

Emma said...

Wow Tiff, you've been working hard! I can't wait to see pictures of the finished product, your girls will have so much fun!

Recovery Guru said...

That looks like it is going to be great, you have really put in a ton of work!! I can't wait until we get a place with a yard, I bet you and your little family with have so much fun out there!

Pam from Over the Big Moon said...

So exciting! I can't wait until we can afford to put our yard in! Can't wait to see the finished product!