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Yard Phase 1

August 31, 2010 By Amanda 2 Comments

: Dirt & mud area behind our garage======I’m playing around with finding a faster way to upload all the photos & images to WordPress. I think this post is pretty self-explanatory about what’s happening in our yard. This was the only part we could get finished before the bridal shower & we hope to do more work in the fall.

: Old fruit tree that was dying, soon to be chopped down

: Narrow yard area along side of garage

: Yard Area along side of garage

: Fruit tree chopped down

: Fruit tree stump & new Mexican Lime Tree

: New Eureka lemon trees

: Pile of 5/8″ pea gravel in our driveway…about 842 trips to move it all!

: Side yard with lemon trees and gravel

: Lime tree with gravel

: Gravel in progress

We also needed a way to keep the rocks together and out of the grass, so we bought some rocks to make an edging along the side of the garage.

GOOD NEWS OF THE DAY: Well, this “gallery” method is a bit faster but there’s not much room to “write” my blog posts in the captions. I suppose it will work well for certain posts, but probably not my best solution.

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Adam’s Reception

August 31, 2010 By Amanda Leave a Comment

After the wedding, we drove over to Fort Jackson Army Base for the reception at the NCO Club.

Poor girl was so tired from her big flower girl performance- she didn’t even make it to dinner time.

Thankfully somebody else had their camera and wasn’t afraid to use the flash!

Mark, as the best man, and Pam sat with the bride at groom at their table for the festivities.

They did come over and hang out with the rest of us at our table….we’re all getting super excited for Mark’s wedding in less than 2 months!

The coupe looked dashing during their first dance….

…nothing like a little bubbly with delicious wedding cake…

Mark & Pam take a few laps around the dance floor, getting some practice for their big day.

After the party officially broke up, we headed next door to the actual “bar” part of the NCO club. There aren’t many photos I can share from the evening, but I laughed really hard looking at all the photos. Things started going down hill around this point with the girls taking on 7 & 7′s.

Yup- all of us out on the dance floor with the one guy who doesn’t dance! Needless to say, it was the “girls night out” and the guys were highly entertained by our rowdiness.

GOOD NEWS OF THE DAY: Sushi for dinner tonight- it’s our favorite place, a little dive bar around the corner, never a wait, and $3.50 martinis.

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Yard

August 30, 2010 By Amanda Leave a Comment

The next thing on our house list is the backyard. There’s a random assortment of bushes and dozens of pencil cactus growing wild in the flowerbeds. There are lots of weeds mixed in with the grass & we added quite a few grass squares early in the spring when we moved in.

There is a decent sized patio slab on the back of the house, but we don’t really care for all the palm trees around the yard. The front corner up by the house is mostly dirt & tends to get very muddy when it rains.

Our plans are to expand the patio area & pave it with flagstone or some other rock. We toyed with the idea of a covered patio or pergola structure, but I think we would hate to block the view from the kitchen window.

There is a very pathetic flowerbed adjacent to the garage that needs to be saved & we want to cut down all the palm trees and redo all the flowerbeds.

Look t the leaping puppy! The yard is shaped like a pie slice, with it getting narrower near the back fence. It isn’t very big & doesn’t leave much room for the dogs to “play” once they have utilized the yard for other things.

We do have a pretty substantial area behind the garage and on the far side. It was mostly dirt (usually mud!) since there isn’t enough sunlight for grass to grow. The old fruit tree drops seeds/fruit on the ground and Mia managed to eat (and usually throw up) those things.

The other dog issue is that Zoe would take no more than 2 steps on the grass to do her business and thus she’d kill all the grass right by the patio and walkway area. So our first phase in yard renovations was to tackle the dog situation- get them to go somewhere else & to get rid of the mud they were constantly tracking into the house.

GOOD NEWS OF THE DAY: Off to Dallas for a day trip.

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