So the backyard is taking over my life. I start in the morning and try to get at least an hour of work done before the kids need help getting ready for school. A lot of days I can get 2 hours in. Most days I'm out there by 6:00 or 6:30. I've stopped running because I'm so exhausted from shoveling and raking that I can't manage to do anything else for exercise. This backyard is taking all of me. However, things are coming along. First I got the sprinkler pipe laid and buried. Things would definitely go a lot faster if I'd stop changing my mind and going back and forth about how I wanted it to be.
Blowing out my gloves
I redid the irrigation control box three times. Change the valves at least twice.
The littles keep flooding the back yard to make mud and undo my progress a little.
I kept thinking that the grass was going to be too low so I kept adding manure and dirt trying to raise the level of it. It's really beautiful first thing in the morning, and I've enjoyed the work out there a lot.
I hired some guys to come do the cement curbing, turned out great. And then it was time for sod.
I got the sod on a weekday, dumb because nobody could help me. But part of me likes to do it all by myself anyway. So I laid 391 square feet of sod all by myself. I pretty much couldn't use my arms for the next 2 days.
That stuff is heavy! But it is gorgeous!
I purchased and planted grapes along the back fence too!
Grass is settling in well!
Uncovered more rocks. Bah!
Step by step, it's coming along.
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