Movin' Dirt

I am SO excited about all the progress we made in the last five days! It seems like all summer we have been working hard and nothing visible was getting done...literally...we've been working on the sprinkler system so even though we've got a lot accomplished you can't actually see any progress. :)

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All that changed this week! My wonderful in-laws came out on Tuesday night, and Wednesday morning things started changing!

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We borrowed a small tractor from a friend to aid in the progress, and boy has it made a difference!

The thing I'm most excited about is my new garden! Most women like to get flowers or jewelry...I could not be more pleased with my five boxes of dirt! Aren't they beautiful?? Okay, okay, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but my eye is beholding these and I'm in love. :)

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They are going to be SO nice to put vegetables in next spring. I won't have to be leaning over to weed, AND they are already filled with a mix of dirt, compost, and peat moss...every gardener's dream! Can you tell how excited I am? Oh, AND between each box is a strip of landscaping cloth, covered in several inches of gravel! Yippee!

Okay, back to the yard...this is what our front yard looked like just six days ago. Weedy, bumpy, hole-ey, yucky.

And this is what it looked like yesterday!

Here's Grandpa leveling the lawn in the tractor.

And the finished back yard. Isn't it pretty?

The side yard...smooth as a baby's bottom!

Yeah, I know that everyone else is probably just seeing a yard full of dirt, but these pictures make me so happy! We are finally making some progress, and we are SO much closer to a nice green lawn. I can hardly wait!

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Next step is concrete curbing. A contractor is supposed to be coming today to give us an estimate. I don't know why they can't just tell you how much per foot, but they have to drive ALL the way out here and then tell us. :P We're trying to figure out if it would be that much cheaper to do it ourselves (after we rented a machine and figured out how to use it) or if we should just hire someone and have it done a lot faster.

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I'll keep you posted on these riveting updates about our yard of dirt. I'm sure you are all just chomping at the bit to hear about it. :)