Sunday, November 30, 2008

Getting the Back Yard Ready to Enjoy

James and I have spent three springs, summers and falls working on our back yard. It has taken many hours, hundreds of pounds of cement, moving many piles of rock and putting in sprinkler sytems, underground drainage, planting, sweat, but it is ready to enjoy.




James is busy here laying 2 foot by 2 foot squares. He put a lot of cement down over three summers to finish it.




Clean up work after running the cement mixer for several hours putting in the squares for the patio.








Busy digging the holes to put up the posts for our patio cover. There is nothing but layers of different types of dirt.




The patio is done and the cover is up. Painted with many layers of paint. We are ready to have a barbeque. It is so nice to go out and sit on the patio in the evening when I get home from work. Jade always joins me so we can play, she loves to have the ball thrown for her.


Yum... We are having some steak tonight and Dad is cooking!!!!



When we planted this little asian pear tree it was only 2 feet tall and the leaves turned black. I just new it was going to die. It is now eight feet tall and gave us so many pears this fall we had to give some away.



Jade in the shade of the Malberry tree. She goes out in the back yard all day. She loves to go out and lay in my pouch swing and go to sleep.


We have deer in the back yard, they were one of my purchases before we even moved in.
This is the patio finished. We blocked off the yard so Jade didn't have full run of the yard. It also gives privacy.




This calms me down after a hard day at work.

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