The vision starts to take shape.

Alright, I know I have been saying I have been working on the back yard for some time now, and I have been. In fact I have spent the majority of my days off working on it or another part of the house. Finally, I can say it is starting to really take shape now. There is a lot more left but I believe I will be taking a break from it for awhile now. I first saw the back yard, it is small, but most yards are here, and I wondered what I could do to make it better, maybe a little more inviting and peaceful. I thought that I would like to have some grass but can't do the whole thing that way. So some gravel and grass, yet I wanted a more unique way of separating the two than some pavers or blocks. So I figured we could put in a dry creek that would work as a divider between the two, and would also help funnel water during the 2 months of monsoon season where it rains everyday. After 30 seconds of trying to dig I realized I was in for quite a chore. The ground is almost a hard clay with so many rocks that you have to use a pick axe. So after days of picking and digging I had the beginning of the creek. Long story short, it took 5 tons of river rock to make it, 3 tons of gravel to fill in the far side, 3 tons of tri mix dirt to prep for sod, and a lot of trips with the wheelbarrow to get it all back there. Today I finally got to put the sod down. I will let you judge if it was worth it.