Just found these photos on my camera. This was right after we moved in. Wow, we've really come a long way!

New Fence Work

So we have been busy trying to get the house ready for the "Open House" party the Saturday before the wedding. Originally we were going to ignore the back area and just throw some mulch down. Then 2 weeks ago we said the hell with it and decided to finish it up as well. that meant putting up more fencing and adding 2 gates. After figuring out where the fence was going to go...I realized we had the issue of finding a place for the garbage cans. I hate looking at them so I wanted to come up with some way to screen them. So I came up with the solution above. Added a low fence to screen the view, but you can reach over the fence to drop the trash/recycling into the bins. Then you walk around the fence on Sundays and wheel it through the gate and directly out to the street. Took up a little more space than just throwing them against a wall...but it's worth it.

Just need to stain the wood, get the mulch down, get a little painting done, landscape lighting, and add a patio mister system...and then the yard will be done. In the future we will probably build a bar set up...but no rush to get that done before the wedding. Looking forward to it being done. Can't wait to enjoy the finished product.

Cactus Down...

So on my way out the door this morning, this is what I saw next to the door. So a few months ago we had 2 new Cacti growths in our housewarming present. The larger cactus also grew quite a bit. One of the cacti was looking kinda brown the last few weeks and no matter how much water/sunlight we got it, it didn't help. This morning, it gave up and finally gave in. But there was some good news...you can see in the zoomed in picture that a new baby is growing right back in it's place. So we are back to having 5 cacti...up from the original 3 when we were given them.

We have done a lot of work in the past few weeks...so much work that we haven't even had a moment to snap a photo and post a blog. (Okay, that's a lie--we're just lazy bloggers.)

Painting the house's exterior is our newest task. So, we are now obsessed with nice paint brushes and Frog Tape (way better than blue painters tape). Check out the new color scheme (!!)...

Stepstone pathway is down...

Realized I hadn't updated the blog in a while. Last weekend we got the stepstones in the upper pathway all placed. Still waiting to get the artificial grass to put down in between each stepstone. That will help add some green color to the above area. Only problem we ran into...was that now the stepstones are down...the gate isn't centered. So part of the fence is coming down this weekend so we can move the gate opening over 7". Hate to do it but it will look like crap if we leave it the way it is.

All thats left is pulling weeds, landscape lighting, plants, and painting the whole house. It's almost done though. Can't wait for the work to be done and to be able to see the final product soon. Then...its time to start the inside. Knocking down some walls and getting the inside to look as good as the outside.

With all the crazy things we've discovered in our yard, we're no longer really phased by anything we find out there. Check out these pipes that Jason dug up while creating a ditch for our electrical lines. They're huge and super heavy---and pretty cool looking! We're hoping to figure out a way to make them into some sort of art piece for the yard. Got any great ideas?

For my sister, and anyone else interested...