A work in progress

Its been a long process... and a lot of work, but we're finally making some visible progress on the back yard. This is a photo of the first time the new lawn was mowed by my handsome husband... with a little help from the foster dog. It didnt start out this way though....

In January it was a lot of dirt and crabgrass... not very pretty. Then came the Bulldozer...

... and a whole lot more dirt, needless to say the
dogs were sooo not allowed in the back yard while it was wet.

Daddy and olive to save us from weeks and weeks of sprinkler system hell. And they did it in a little under 3 days. Thanks Papa!

Next step was the decision to seed, hydroseed or sod. Ok well sod was out of the question, we are on a budget here, seed was a possibility, but superbargainhunter robbi was on the job... i found hydroseed for cheap, and it was in by the saturday a week after the sprinkler system was finished... tah dah! Within 2 weeks we had tiny little blades of grass... and a lot of little weeds popping up all over the yard.... and then the first mow.. yay!

Since the grass has grown in we've been SLOWLY working on laying out fabric and getting some of the plants that have been patiently waiting to go into the ground, to their new homes. We plan on slowly filling in bark where it is needed and as we can afford it. I've had a couple of casualties in the process... i might have to buy a new dawn redwood and a new corkscrew willow next year ... but overall that's not to bad.. but i really did love those 2 trees, good thing they were only a couple bucks a piece.