Wednesday, August 22, 2007

The Front Yard is DONE!

It's done! (For the most part...)
Here is the before (for those who don't' remember the last front-yard post):

And here is the after:

The digging, trenching, edging, laying of sprinklers, placing the rock, grooming of the trees, laying of a whole lot of sod and rolling it (to make sure it doesn't roll up) in the middle of a gigantic downpour is DONE!

80 yards of sod in all (720 square feet), and he used all of it!

Finding out that one of our drain-pipes was clogged - nothing like unclogging a downspout in a rolling thunder-boomer! (I took this from under the safety of an umbrella... chuckle!) I don't think his boots have dried yet...
It is important that the lawn get rolled with a heavy roller so it doesn't curl at the edges. The drum is filled with water to make it heavy... and it is easy to "lighten" when transported. So back and forth he went while the lightning flashed and the thunder boomed and that blessed, wonderful heaven-sent rain kept on falling... and falling, and falling! We haven't had to water yet (and the lawn looks great!)
I took these pictures from the front-door and out our front-window. Notice he changed to flip-flops? :) Smart guy!
Now about that other small job we had to get done... what was it, again??? Something that needs to get done before October... shucks - can't quite remember... (lol)

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