Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Nothing Like Yard Work

This weekend we turned this...



Into this...


Mark hauled 50-60 wheel barrow loads of dirt from the road to the side flower bed. All that dirt filled only this north side of our house. It's hard to tell from the picture but it's a pretty high mound of dirt. I felt like I was doing an Indian rain dance for four hours. I had to pack the dirt down and my feet were the best tool we had. I wish I had a pedometer on to calculate how many steps I made. We love how it turned out. And I got totally burned. Ouch. Now all we need to do is plant stuff in it. But I won't hold my breath. I'm still waiting to plant stuff in the front of my house.

2 comments:

M. Harrison said...

Great job guys! It looks really nice...it's a tough job actually having to landscape your own yard. We'll just sit back a little longer and watch others do it (unfortunately). Cute pictures of Piper in the pool. We got told by management that they didn't want any kid pools out this summer. Yah RIGHT!!! This mom will be filling a pool with water occasionally no matter what crotchety people say!!

megship said...

That looks great! I did notice it the other day.

Now get planting!!!

I kinda want to take my huge bum and put it in that huge pool...