Progress!!!

Yesterday we had both of our families over to help with the garden and they were SUCH an amazingly huge help. We planted all new plants along the driveway, stained the fence AND got all of the posts in for the retaining wall. There's a lot more to do, but we can actually see the framework of our future margarita-drinking-friendly backyard! Here are some pics:

















































The driveway...

































View of the fence from the driveway...

The Great Garden Project of '09

We've started our very big Spring project of re-doing our yard and here are some pics of the progress... Right now it's looking like a crazy big dirt pile but hopefully over the next few weeks it'll transform into a great place to hang out all summer... I think Kaia would be happiest if we just left it a big dirt pile!

Before...

Removing the old patio...














Movin' dirt...

Taking out the retaining wall...










































This is a preliminary design, shape of the patio has changed, but the spirit is the same.















Final structural plans, fully-rendered in 3D, board by board. Building begins in about 2 hours! This is just eh infrastructure... plants, pots, steps and all kinds of goodness to be added...

Mountain bike racing is back!

Warming up, a couple practice laps before the start...