Welcome to Our Yard

We officially have a yard, and I love it! The concrete was poured on Thursday, Sept. 9th – we also had 8 pallets of sod delivered last week. We spent the last week fine grading our yard, renting a trencher to put in sprinkler pipes, gluing together over 500’ of pipe, filling trenches and placing sod. We are plumb worn out . . . but look at our pretty yard . . . we’re getting close.

Adam’s dad got some pictures of the concrete guys pouring the driveway, I hope to get those soon. I forgot my camera this past weekend, so I don’t have any action shots of yard work. I managed to get a couple things on my phone, would of gotten more but we stayed busy working.

Here’s one pallet of sod. We get the Empire variety of Zoysia. It’s softer and more resilient than St. Augustine. We like it a lot.

Here’s one of the trenches in the back yard for irrigation piping. We rented a trencher from Home Depot, but I don’t have any pictures of it. We were in a rush to get the trenches dug before it started raining and our rental time was up.

Here’s a few pictures of our new driveway, sidewalk and grass. The stakes are marking where there are tees in the lines to attach the sprinkler heads.



The black line across the driveway is the hose - we're moving a hose mounted sprinkler around until our sprinklers are finished.



The side yard.

We have about 10-feet of sod off the back porch. We were originally going to seed the rest of the yard, but we’re probably going to put some more sod down instead.

I had a memory stone engraved for our little baby we lost four months ago. We placed it under the largest oak tree on Sept. 8th – her due date. I think it’s a really great spot and look forward to remembering Hannah in this way.

This Saturday, we are planting trees, bushes, and flowers. More pictures to come.