Project: Front Yard

Over the last two weekends, David and I spent one day working on a border for our front yard. It was perfect since we had extra stuff from doing the backyard. We had extra border, extra fabric to lay down and we have enough mulch to last us a few years :)

So the Sunday before last, we put Christopher down for a nap and just dove in to the project. We started with the area by our front door.

It had this icky moss that was growing, so that was an easy decision.

Then moved down the house. We decided to go as far as one piece of border would take us. Work in batches right?

(That's Cody's butt in the photo, he was outside with us the whole time just finding any little piece of shade he could.)

We created and edge all the way around so we knew where we were going and could eye-ball it out.

Christopher woke up from his nap. I sat him in the doorway so I could get him set up.

so I brought out his frog chair, his "book" (David's manual), a sippy cup and his hat and he sat and watched us for about 30 minutes.

And I wasn't kidding, I think Cody would have gone under the car to get in the shade if he had fit.

After a while, Christopher wanted to do something else, so I got him set up with chalk. That lasted about 20 minutes.

(note: he looks unhappy here, but he wasn't, I'm not sure why he looks so sad)

See? Happy :)

And the dirt. OMG, I didn't think we'd have that much dirt.

Anyone want some nice rich Salinas soil? It's great....

Oh, yeah, back to the border.

We got it shoveled out, racked it clean

Cody approved

See how pretty?

This is when we took a break, took Christopher in for lunch, played with him for a bit and put him down for his second nap. With him down again, we dove back in. (remember, this is now 2pm and we've been at this since 10am)

Break time

Putting the border in.

And then we moved over trip after trip of wheelbarrow full of mulch from the backyard.

And more

(We put down the weed barrier stuff before hand)

See?

And more mulch

And more

This is where we stopped that day. It was 4pm, junior was just waking up and David and were about ready to collapse.

So we picked up where we left off and started again this past Saturday morning.

I will spare you the paly-by-play but here is the end product.

It's not perfect, but it's so much better

(see that really green patch of grass back there by the gate? We had leftover sod from the back yard and put it in here, it's the greenest part of the front yard now)

See how pretty?

Ok, that's it. I'm almost exhausted just going over all the details again. Se spent another 4 hours on it Saturday. So all in all it took us about 10 hours and we only had to buy one extra set of border for $30. So to do the front border, it was only the extra $30 and a few days of feeling really, really sore. (But I love looking at it when I get home!)