Backyard Extreme Makeover

It finally happned! Our backyard is liveable now and we LOVE it! Thanks to all of you who helped us out. We couldn't have done it without you. It was a lot of work but it was so worth it. Now we can enjoy our backyard. At least when the weather is nice.

So here is the run down of what we did......

- we laid bark down in all the flowerbeds along the home and all over in the back. There are a lot of flowerbeds too. We also had to lay down the weed fabric before that also. Tedious work. But I didn't do much. I just sat and watched the workers bring my back yard to life.

- we trimmed up all the trees around the waterfall. You couldn't even see the waterfall thanks to the hidious trees that were covering it up. And suprise, we found out we have 3 pine trees tucked up back there. Now  you can see through the trees and the waterfall. It is tremendous. Beautiful and relaxing.

- we brang in a truck load of new river rock to put around the waterall to fill in the gaps that were bare showing the old weed fabric that was underneath.

-we brang in a truck load of sand for the new sand box. By the way, my children LOVE that. It has been calling all the neighbor kids too. It is a great asset to the backyard. I recommend those!

-we planted some flowers, pulled out our barbeque grill. Bought a hanging flower basket and just filled the back yard with company.

Now everytime I got out I feel as if I am on a vacation. It is that nice. My pictures don't do it justice but just believe me when I say it is amazing. I love the sound of the waterfall cascading down the rocks. I have my windows open everyday so you can hear it throughout my home. It is a such a relaxing sound.
Each night two huge bull frogs make their presense known by their enormoulsy loud crocking. My brother-n-law Joh is fed up with them. I think they crock just for him because it irritates him to no end. Each night he kindly walks out to the pond and throws some rocks into the pond, hoping that he will get lucky and hit them and they will stop all together. It quites down for a few minutes and John sits back and enjoys the peace and quite and then all of a sudden they will start up again. I think they like it, the bothering him. I just know it.
Now John and Carrie are starting to get used to it as they sing our whole household to sleep each night. All of our neighbors have mentioned that they can hear them too. We might have to escort some of those frogs out. I like them!
Now we enteratain, read, eat and just hang out in our backyard. I LOVE it out there. You are welcome to come and join us too because once you come you will not want to leave.