July 2nd...It's been a while...but I've been doing yardwork!

So, the pictures I'm going to show you today span a month or two. Starting out, we have our messy yard after the house construction was finished. No topsoil and a bunch of trash and building stuff everywhere.


So we had some topsoil delivered and someone come in and spread it with a dozer.
 




We have a lot of tree stumps with their roots left from doing the pad for the house, and since we don't have a tractor, Doyle strapped the stumps to his jeep and hauled a bunch of them away from the house to a clear spot so we can burn them later. We didn't get them all hauled away...but he did a bunch.


We also burned a bunch of brush (and poison ivy....ugh!).


 I don't have any pictures of the mega-ditch that we dug, but after a bunch of rain we discovered that we needed a drain in the front of the house. So we spent a LOT of time diggin' a LONG ditch so that we could put in a drain to funnel all of the rain out of the yard. That took us several weekends.

And we found a turtle in our driveway...

So after our dirt was all smooth, we seeded the yard but it washed after several hard rains. So we are now in the process of putting down sod a couple of pallets at a time. 4 down ~15 to go.
Here's a picture of the front yard before sod (and with Ty's new pool. I know, great spot right in front of the house..but at least he likes it.)

   ...and a picture after some sod. Flower beds and landscaping to come later. Much later...