Backyard

Our long-awaited backyard renovation is finally underway.

We had been thinking for some time about building a deck in the back and last summer we spent a lot of time and effort working on a plan to build one. We worked with a landscape designer who helped us come up with some ideas on making over the whole backyard.

A month or two into the project the woman we hired left the country to go take care of her ailing mother in Germany. We continued to work with her partner on the plan but as the weeks went on it seemed the design was getting a little bit away from what we had in mind and it was also going to be pretty costly. So we made the decision to shelve the project until the spring and then manage it ourselves.

 

Over the fall and winter we had a bunch of trees removed and fixed up the front yard. The same crew who did those jobs came back this summer to build us a couple of retaining walls in the backyard. These guys did a great job in the heat moving almost 800 sixty pound blocks down from street level to build these walls.

 

There is another crew hard at work on building the deck. Aimee spent a lot of time working on drawings for the deck and it looks like it's going to be really nice.