Yay for Yardwork!

Grant worked tirelessly on our yard before we hired some landscapers to finish the rest.

When we bought the house there was a rotted out deck in the backyard...that pretty much covered the entire yard minus the koi pond...that attracted a plethora of mosquitoes.

Grant tore up the entire deck himself...and to get rid of the wood he made daily stops at the lumberyard on the way to work to drop off as much wood as he could fit in his trunk!

So we were left with a barren backyard full of dirt and weeds.

The front yard was a mess too. The owners thought that the front yard was an English garden...to us it was a bunch of overgrown plants and really big trees that were really messy and had roots that were threatening our foundation. Pretty much it all had to go.

We hired a tree company to take down 5 trees and grind the stumps. The only problem was that they didn't really grind the Live Oak's stump down enough to lay sod over it...so we tried putting some stump dissolver in it (that we bought from Ace)...it didn't work. So we decided to hire a landscaper to fix that problem, level and lay sod in the front and back yards.

Now we have grass! However, they're coming back tomorrow to fully level the back yard. We cannot wait to take Penelope out in her new yard!!