Friday, April 4, 2008

Yard Work Part I

We have finally started to xeroscape our front yard (we have been planning this for the last year or so, and have been working on our yard since we bought the house). Our house was built in 1937 and after the original owner sold it in the 40's (the manager of JC Penny) it had been in the same family. The Lady who lived here's husband had died about 20 years before we bought it, and even though our neighbors were more than willing to help, she had let the yard get beyond overgrown. The first summer and fall we were here we worked on trimming the trees that had branches to the ground in the back of the house and taking out all of the nasty evergreen bushes (some of which were taller than the house) out which left huge grassless areas in our front yard. Then the city of fallon way increased the price of water and also did sidewalk work along the side of our house causing major damage to our sprinkler system (which we had to fix). ANYWAY . . . it has been quite the relief (I'm sure to our neighbors also) to start getting something done in our front yard. If it hadn't been for the wind, we could have gotten farther - and also if it hadn't been for the size of our yard (we live on the corner, which is awesome but also a lot of work). SO, here are the pics of what we accomplished today - may not look like much to most of you, but trust me, it is a lot of progress!



Our house - this pic doesn't do justice to the size of our yard - our front and side yard is probably bigger than our house - also, ignore the need for paint, that hopefully will be done in the next year or so!

The smaller side of our yard - the side we did the most with thoday. There will be rail road ties all the way around (ones missing in the front) and then a grow box in the middle with the rest in rock.

The other HUGE side of the yard so you can get an idea of what our yard looked like!

Another pic of what we have done from the front porch.

Ky had a BLAST - he dug in the dirt, ate some dirt, and played with the sprinkler parts. He was filthy dirty in no time, but had so much fun. The best part was that he slept 5 hours (2 in the morning and 3 this afternoon), I guess yard work wore him out!

Hopefully in the next week we will have completed pictures of at least one side of the yard!

3 comments:

The Jeffs Family said...

You inspire me! We are just thinking of blowing up our backyard...much easier and less expensive. I can ignore it during the winter, but now that it is getting warmer, I have to deal with it. No fun! Good luck with everything!

Lewieville said...

Such a cute house!! Yards are a lot of work, very tedious. Good work. Can't wait to see the finished product.

zippy said...

Woo-hoo! You're house is so-o cute and the landscaping looks like it's coming right along--congrats! We're looking forward to landscaping our backyard in the next couple of months--I'm so-o excited!!