Dirty 5-5

I took a few days off…not a lot going on. Still getting things organized and rearranged since getting back. I got all my piles of yarn boxed and organized in a closet. Larry rewired our TV hookups from one side of the room to the other today in between supervising the dirt moving.

Yesterday we went to Lowe’s to price edging options and get a few things. Larry keeps getting annoyed with having to buy stuff that he used to have and didn’t keep when we hit the road but we couldn’t keep and store everything.

Today the concrete people showed up to start prepping. They lifted out our old little patio and scraped up all our lawn out front. Of course the wind had to blow….our neighbors are going to hate us…the sand was just blowing out of our yards like crazy with the sod gone and the dirt all moved around in the backyard. It will be soooo nice when it is all covered up again.

We have lucked out with having our concrete colored. Our contractor discovered that the company that makes a lot of the powdered dyes have gone out of business and the liquid dye is too expensive, but his supplier happened to have two bags of the color we wanted so we won’t be blinded by the glare…we are having the concrete darkened.

Here are our plans for the yards and the plot map so you can see the whole plan. We are using different colored and textured rock material with a few planting areas. I can’t wait until I can show the finished job…we have a ton of work to do! Right now the front yard looks as bad as the back yard with the sod out.