Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Work around the house

We've had some really nice weather and it provided the opportunity to get some things done outside lately.  The window wells for the basement bedrooms face north and are very.... green.  I cleaned all the windows, but only one window well so far.  Can you see the difference?  It's so much brighter in those basement bedrooms now! 
Pop came with his skid loader and we moved the two rubbermaid sheds.  We also are taking out part of the circle driveway, so he used the stone from that to make a base for the sheds.  So much nicer!  And he ripped out some tree roots here and there as well as help me rework the backyard a little.  I sprayed alot of the woods in the back yard to help push it back and make the yard a little bigger.  We will put the new playset back there when the time comes.
We had to dig the driveway out to 12-15 inches deep, so we were looking for places to put the extra stone.  So the part of the driveway we are keeping has a nice new layer of stone.  We also have a couple piles around the yard. :)  Over all things turned out pretty well.  We will be getting some dirt to fill in the driveway tomorrow.  We had a lot of rain after we dug it out, so it was full of water until we pumped it out (thanks to all the clay in the soil).  The boys have had fun digging in the rocks with their CAT tractors though.  :)
We had a dead tree dropped this week.  Andy didnt' want to risk it falling and hitting the house, so we had someone else to the job.  They also chipped out some of the roots that were too big for the skid loader.  The back yard is getting closer and closer to being ready to plant grass! 


Dirty Window

Clean window


That load was a little too big


See the sheds to the right?


The new house next door getting it's roof rafters put up.


Rocks to edge the grass/landscaping





Swing is up!  And it's the perfect spot.

Swinging at Mimi's house

Casen and Peter

Squirt gun attack on Jeremy!

Chipping out the roots

guy who did most of the work ;)

Tree is down!  They even moved the trampoline back.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Everything looks so nice! Glad everyone is adapting well to school.