it has been a month since my last post. we have been VERY busy. here is a time line of the work we did in the yard:
september 20th: we hired out someone to trench the yard.
september 22nd: we started on our sprinkler system. i'm really sad we didn't get a photo of it - it looked really cool to see all the pipes running under ground. if any of you are interested, i'll show you the plans. hahaha.
september 28th: we finished laying all the pipe for the sprinklers, leveled the pipes, and started filling the trenches.
october 1st: we finished filling the trenches and started the prep work for the patio.
october 2nd: we rented a compacter and compacted the dirt where the concrete would go and brought in gravel to finish the prep work.
october 4th: we (my dad) poured the concrete to expand the patio, brought in 5 loads of topsoil and rented a bobcat to move the dirt around the yard. then we raked. and raked. and raked.
october 8th: we had the curbing poured and started putting sprinkler heads on.
october 10th: we finished putting all the sprinkler heads on, raked, raked, raked, and layed sod! let me point out that we did the whole yard in 2 1/2 weeks without taking time off work. needless to say i have spent the past two weeks catching up on housework! thanks SOOO much to our wonderful friends and family who came and helped!
this boy is SOOO happy to be able to crawl freely around the yard!
8 comments:
The yard looks awesome! So much work, but worth the effort. How cute Asher is with his daddy!
Your house looks so nice. Dan will be so proud of you when I tell him you have a 3-car garage. Don't get him started on the 2-car ones . . . .
What? No shout out to Jake? Dis.
yo-- Nice house. Im lovin the grass. Wish mine was that green
Beautiful! That was alot of hard work! I am very impressed! I didn't know there were so many steps involved! WOW!
You totally rock the house! I mean yard.
I can't believe you got your yard in so fast. I will have to stop by and see it.
Mindy - that's a lot of work, and I bet it feels great to get it all done! I know what you mean about catching up on housework - halloween put us behind, I can't even imagine what my house would look like with a project like this going on! It was fun to see all your posts, even all at once. I've been checking your site through Shelly's... cyber spying. ;-) And your pigtail braids are so cute!
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