yards of dirt

the last couple days have been a little crazy.  all this warm weather had b and i scrambling to get our yard and garden prepped and ready. so monday we had yards of dirt dropped on our driveway.  then the hard work of moving all the dirt to where it was needed began.  we composted the front lawn, the front flower bed and the back flower bed with the dillo dirt and filled the two garden beds in the back with gardening soil.  a week ago, we had some guys come out and remove the shrubs in front of the house.  some of them were 50%-80% dead from the bad drought last year.  most were in horrible shape from lack of pruning.  aside from that they were starting to cover up the house.  i could literally walk out and no one would see me because they were 5 inches taller than me!  so new shrubs also went in. to say the least, we were wiped out but everything looks so much better already. so all the hard work was well worth it.  

before & after

found a couple nest of lady bugs in the empty new garden bed

backyard all filled, trimmed and composted.  ready for veggie planting!

today was another home improvement day. our plumber finally came out to repair a leak that we discovered a while back.  it's been the strangest thing and leaking under the weirdest conditions. so we're happy to get some of the problem fixed and one step closer to solving the problem. here's hoping this is the end of it and all we need to do is patch up the drywall in the garage.  

leak fixed