The One About the Yard

We work in the yard. A lot. We moved in to this house on June 10, 2006. We immediately brought in loads of dirt, put in the sprinkler system, curbed the front and put sod in front and hydroseed in back.
The freshly hydroseeded backyard. We spent all fall battling the deer who tracked through and killed little baby grass and left empty spots all over.
The next year, we didn't do too much other than growing an amazing amount of tomatoes. Oh, we built a retaining wall on one side of the house and planted raspberries and killed a peach tree. This year however, we have planted like crazy, several trees, lots and lots and lots of bushes and lots of flowers. We still have bulbs to plant and some more little "filler" bushes to put in and of course we are going to try peach trees again. But it has been fun to see it begin to take shape. In 15+ years it will be awesome! :)
Yeah, I know that is a lot of grassy area. That is because that is where the volleyball net goes. :)

This last one I found while I was looking for photos. We brought in so many truckloads of dirt, I can't even remember how many, but we had fun jumping from dirt pile to dirt pile. Look at cute little three-year old Zack!!

So I Married A Caveman

Matt is just a yard-working fool, let me tell you. His theory is that if we plant all the major stuff this summer, next summer we will be sittin' pretty. He spent about 15 hours working in the yard....not planned, but we had a delivery of mulch that was supposed to arrive late afternoon and didn't end up coming until after 7 pm. The mulch-man dumped the load in our neighbors backyard (thanks, neighbors!) because they have gravel that goes all the way to their fence and then the truck wouldn't have to drive across our grass. However, we are in the process of getting a fence and all the posts are in and the bottom rails are set. The plan is for the the fence men to finish up today. So Matt was trying to shovel mulch over the bottom rail of the fence into our yard on Saturday night. Until 10:30pm. So our mulch wouldn't be stuck in the neighbors yard, behind a fence when he got home from work on Monday. Anywho....anyone who thinks 10 yards of mulch isn't a lot, definetely hasn't shoveled it and wheelbarrowed it around a half acre yard in a race agains the clock (or fence guys.) When Matt came in on Saturday night he was laughing and I look over and see this:

No, that isn't just his super atractive farmer tan, most of that is dirt. Totally reminded me of a cave man. I am planning to do a post showing all of his hard work in the yard. We went to a VoiceMale concert a few weeks ago and one of the songs was, "Farmer tan, farmer tan....I love a man with a farmer tan. "