Except it actually looked worse than that because all the grass died and a million weeds sprung up.
Thanks to Rollie (John's dad), my Dad, and a landscaper the job got done really quickly and we love our new lawn and sprinklers! We decided to go ahead and do the front yard while we were at it so we actually love our new lawnS. We still need to plant the flowerbeds and put down some pavers in the back. Once we add on in a few years we'll probably do something a bit more fancy in the backyard but we didn't want to spend a bunch of money now just to tear it up a little down the road. I'm a happy camper for now! (And so is Nala - poor dog didn't even want to go to the bathroom out there it was so awful!)
John and Rollie used a sod cutter to clear the backyard
Rollie put in the apron for the flower bed
We needed to replace the main water line coming into the house because it had been done incorrectly sometime before we bought the house. John and my dad dig a lot of digging to get it exposed.
Unfortunately while hooking up the new line to the meter, the old corroded pipes on the city's side of the meter sprung a leak. And the leak got bigger, and bigger, and bigger until we had a full on geyser. I had to call the city for an emergency visit (on a Sunday). They sent someone right out who told us this happens all the time and the city is in the process of replacing all the pipes. He told us we could just clamp it off for the day and he'd have a crew out the next day to fix it. Clamping it off proved to be a hard job. It involved a water pump, a bunch of clamps, and my brother randomly stopping by to see how we were doing - we put him right to work!
And all that hard work leads us to this. Nala approves!!
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