Solid Rock!

Michael and I make a trip to Lowe's every weekend. Michael always jokes that he needs to buy stock in it because we spend so much money there. I guess that is part of building a new house. There is always something that we need.

For the past few weeks we have been working on the yard-well Michael has been working I have just been supervising! :) We have had some really nice weather and Lowe's finally put all their trees out so we decided to buy two-one for the front and one for the back. Once Michael started digging it didn't take him long to realize that our house was built on solid rock! There are a few inches of dirt and the rest is nothing but rock-and I'm not talking small pieces of rock, I mean huge chunks of rock!! Poor Michael had to work so hard to break through the rock but he finally managed to get both holes dug and both trees planted. We planted an Autum Maple Blaze in the front-it will have beautiful fall foliage and we planted an Oklahoma Redbud in the back-it will have pretty pink flowers in the spring!

We did plant some winter rye grass before we left for Connecticut at Christmas. We didn't think it would grow but we wanted to at least try and get some grass down for the dog. To our surprise a lot of it started to come up when we got back and it is still growing!! We can't wait until we can put in our sprinkler system and plant some grass. I want to have a beautiful yard for the summer. We will also start working on some flower beds. I know that eventually we will have the yard we have always dreamed of. Here are a few pics of what it looks like right now. We will post more when we get more done!