Yardwork

I know I promised to post pictures of our house, and I haven't done it.  That's because I'm not quite ready to show it off yet.  We just have so much space and not enough furniture to fill it!  We did buy a new couch and T.V.  We still want to get an entertainment center, bookshelves, and maybe a new bedroom set in the next few months here.  And do some painting.  And then maybe I'll be ready to show it to people other than family.

But despite lots of empty space and several unpacked boxes, it is starting to look more like a home.  We finally hung most of our pictures up on the walls.  I bought two new trash cans and some new soap dispensers for the bathrooms. And we bought Anna a bookshelf so all her books are actually on a shelf rather than in a box.

And the yard is starting to look really good.  We had a several dry patches of grass that have greened up nicely after a few extra waterings and several rainstorms.  Derek's mom came last weekend (with garden gloves in tow) to help us with the yard.  She went to town clearing out the vegetable garden, tearing out two nasty trees, replanting the plum tree in a new spot, and planting a new tree out front.  It looks so much better!  Thanks, Karry!

In fact, maybe I'll go take a few pictures of the yard and post those.  Here ya go...

Before: See the little plum tree next to the garden which is all overgrown with weeds? And the ugly cottonwood?

After: Cottonwood is gone!  Garden is weed-free.  And the plum tree is moved.

 Before: Dryish grass and nasty Russian olive tree?

After: Green grass! Russian olive is gone.  And there's the little plum tree's new home.

Here's another view of the yard.  (Sorry it's blurry.  I was taking from behind the window because it was raining.)

So the three trees are a plum tree, cherry tree (which was engulfed before by the cottonwood...you can see the stump), and an apple tree.  We want to plant a peach tree to the left of the plum next spring.  And we will fence in the rest of the backyard, hopefully next spring as well.  Derek also wants to put in a drainage system between the trees and fence.  Our backyard and our neighbor's backyard both slope down to where they meet, and when we had a huge rainstorm last Saturday, we had a little pond in our yard for a couple days.

So there's the backyard.  I promise I'll post pictures of the inside soon!