Backyard Continued...

Well well, this is what our yard looked like by mid-day on Saturday! Yikes! My Uncle Scott was ripping up our sod with the backhoe and I was holding my breath as I watched our backyard turn into a major construction zone!

Here's Scott getting ready to dig out the area for our garden to go...after Uncle Scott pulls the grass out of course!

Within an hour they were leveling the area for the patio and putting the forms in. Concrete will be poured by Scott and Scott in the next few weeks. For now I just have to keep my boys out of the dirt! Ahh!!

By late afternoon we had the upper area dug out, leveled, and--thanks to our neighbors who were putting compost in their garden--filled with compost! Yeahoo!! We are ready to plant our garden. We'll wait till after Mother's Day though so we don't have any frost issues. We need to get a dump truck to haul away all the dirt on our basketball court now!! The upper dirt area will be filled in with bark. Scott didn't want to have to keep mowing that upper level!! There is too much grass to mow anyhow. So our upper level in our yard has been turned into a garden plot...more to come in the upcoming weeks!