4-4-16 --- yard work!!!!

Yesterday Ken and I went over to the Hicks' house while Angie was at church and mowed, raked, and blew leaves around.  When Angie got home, she went on to packing more stuff, so we went on home and I hit the pool.  The pool was very much therapeutic yesterday!!!

With the temperatures down to about 80 today, we decided it would be a good day to get the resodding and other yard work done---or at least started!  So we heading out with Angie at about 11:30 to run to Home Depot for dirt, mulch, lava rock, and a couple other things she needed.  Unfortunately they didn't have the rock she wanted, so we then took off to Lowes.  Fortunately, they did.  Some $50 later, we left with 9 bags of rock, 6 bags of mulch, and 4 bags of dirt.  That didn't go too far!  So back to Lowes for pretty close to that much more.  Then Angie and Ken headed off to the nursery to get a palette of sod.  That took 3 trips with the back of their SUV full each time!  While they ran for that, I cleaned the inside of the fountain again, trimmed more palm branches by the front walkway, swept dirt off the driveway, and started taking wheel barrels full of sod to the back yard.  Sure looked like a lot of sod!  Sure was a lot of work!!  Sure looks a lot better!!!
First time I've seen an Ibis in their yard!  Angie said there were 3 of them out there while she and Ken where laying some rock and dirt around. 

 About 6 we took a break for pizza, then got back out to try and finish up before the sun set. 

 Hard to believe that was all dirt!  Looks so nice now.  Hard to believe a palette of sod didn't go as far as I  thought it would.

At least sunset isn't until about 7:40 now.

It was all dirt to the other side of the little palm.

The dogs did a job on the lawn which is why she took them to Georgia before we tackled this project.  It's almost back to the way it was when they bought the place.

This area was a mud pit!  Angie built it up with the lava rock and dirt, then laid sod on it.  The neighbor's yard had sloped into theirs, so when his sprinkler went off, the area flooded.  Then the dogs ran it into mud and tracked it into the patio area.  Amazing how good it all looks now!  But now we won't be able to enjoy it! 

Still some more rocks to go here and there and a bunch of mulch, but the wheel barrels full of sod are done---Yes!!!