Yard pictures

So I was going through my folders of pictures and realized I never got around to blogging about our yard.  Chad and I have worked pretty hard the last few years to get our dirt hill to me something enjoyable. (Really probably more Chad than me, but I try to help out) After 3 retaining walls later and some flower beds, we really got to enjoy it last year with a few BBQs.  We were going to extend our cement patio across the back of our house last year, but it never seemed to get done.  But we hear, the guy is going to come soon to pour it!!  YEAH.  It'll be nice to finally be done with the yard.

 But when are we really done with our yard.  Chad starts his 4th year of Vet school in a matter of weeks and there for has no summer off this year.  So I'm sure we'll be limited in what we do.  Chad is so funny though.....He is already commenting about how "our grass is all dead and everybody else has a greener lawn than ours,  Our grass is going to grow back right?  I really wish we had the sprinklers on."  So we haven't had tons of warm weather to make it green up, but we are in some need of some sprinklers to be turned on, and soon.   So these pictures are really from last year, cause Chad would be so embarrassed to show pictures right now.

So our project for this year is how to get a garden in this yard.  So something else Chad has been working on is seed starters.  He planted them the weekend that started Spring Break and by the next weekend, we had plants sprouting!!

So after the progress we've seen on the starters inside, Chad had to move the peas to another container for some more growing room.  So the tomatoes will be planted in some garbage cans that we'll fill the bottom with aluiminum and tin cans to help drain water off the soil.  We're also hoping the edges of the can will help protect the plants from the wind.  Then the rest of the starters are flowers and will be interspersed with the bulbs that finally came up from last spring. 

Well there was one Lily that came up last summer.

So here's the 1 week seedlings

Here are the tomato plants

And the replanted peas!!!!