Landscaping & Work

The last few weeks have been consumed with two things: Work and Landscaping.

Three weeks ago E took a job with my company...what a change! We've been busy adjusting to the new job and the new schedule. For me, the biggest change is that I am no longer sitting around every night waiting for three hours for my husband to come home (hence the decrease in blogging!). For E, the new job means a lot less stress--and I tend to think he has been making up things to be stressed about to fill the void.

We've also begun the enormous task of landscaping our yard. Our house was a great deal, mostly because it had been so terribly neglected the past two years. Being as it is a new house, this neglect was minimal on the inside--but our yard is hell.

We have mapped out budgets, drawn lines in the dirt, tried to figure out how to make a design plan, talked to vendors and friends, gone to visit plots of grass all around town, and spent hours online. As we speak, the sun has gone down and E is still out digging the whole where the patio is going to go.

The bright side to the ladscaping is it gives us something to talk about other than work! Below is our first round draft at the landscape plan.