Saturday, July 10, 2010

A homeowners work is never done

Out of the blue Matt says, "Lets build a rock wall."  I say, "Sure, why not."
Three weeks, three broken backs, and lots of sore muscles later we have a beautiful rock wall and a whole new front yard! (half a front yard to be exact) I figured it wouldn't be easy, but I was up for a little hard work, until I wasn't anymore.  My cousin's daughter was staying with us, and she was great at finding the perfect rocks.  But of course it's not as easy as just stacking rocks, after all it has to look good and stay standing.  Plus we had to put in a whole new sprinkler system, ugh. Let's just say I'm glad it's finally done.

 Here's some before pictures to compare...
 * Flashback moment *  I found some pictures of my very first yard project, this was 5 years ago at our house in Greenville, SC.  We added the planter bricks around the tree and about 50 square feet of grass around it. Ahh, so proud of myself!