pictures and story of the yard

these are the concrete guys, fixing up the rest of the concrete. we extended the driveway and put up a retaining wall.

my brother got so excited about the new concrete that he walked on it before it was set. so we ended up with a footprint.. my sister fixed it best she could.

i asked my dad if we could put our names in the concrete... he called me 12, then said i could. You cant see them very well, without shade, so we decided to paint them in so the names stand out. but they arent all painted yet, so i havent taken another picture yet. My sister did the names of hers and my parents, and i wanted to do my own, and fucked it up bad. so mine looks really bad compared to the others. :( oh well.

later that day, we saw a katy did walking up the side of our house, got nearly to the top, took a rest, and i think fell asleep. about 4 minutes after it stopped to rest it fell all the way down (from the second story to the doorstep). i think it stunned itsself because my dad picked it up and it didnt even try to run away.. it also didnt do very well when he tried putting it on a leaf. my dad basically had to force it on the leaf so it would get off his hand.

we planted flowers. we just happened to plant them on earth day.

more earth day flowers

after they were planted we got red and black mulch. the red is up at the top of the front of the house, with the hibiscus' and these colorful flowers.

and the black is around the rock, and at the front of the house near the street with the hummingbird bushes, and something purple...)

these are milkweeds for monarch butterflies. hopefully they can find them... so far the only thing that has found them are gnats!

and yesterday we had topsoil dirt delivered, (that we had to shovel) into the yard, because we have/had a massive dip in our yard that my dad wanted to fix up so that it was flat and even.

i was helping earlier, but went in to rest when my parents came home. so this is them with my sister evening out a spot and putting grass down.

hopefully all the plants take and the grass doesnt die. but we'll have to wait maybe a couple more weeks to find out what has died and what hasnt.