Landscraping

Check out this nice rainbow I snapped last week:

Big Dave likes to call it landscraping. Well, they do a fair amount of scraping, don't they? And digging, and planting. Our landscape guys are hard at work, and they have unearthed another lucky horse shoe. There it is on the right, next to the 4 that turned up on St. Patrick's Day. That horse had big hooves. Blocky fellow.

Here are some of the plants in the back yard, these grassy things will fill in and look nice.

They haven't put them in the ground yet, but these shrubberies have beautiful purple berries. The birds will enjoy them.

Here is the front yard. Our Bureaucracy Oak has been yanked out & replaced by this Little Hip Hawthorne. It's going to have to be moved, though, because it's competing with the stained glass window for attention (the window ALWAYS wins).
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Getting settled

Remember that clean, empty kitchen we pictured on moving day? Here's what it looked like by the end of the day - box chaos. What a mess!
Here's the family room, I think I took this pic the day after we moved in:

Here it is now - we still need to hang some pictures, but we're getting there.

Meanwhile, the landscapers are working on the yard. Since Tim & Stan moved to Galveston, it's our turn to have the nicest yard on the street (Holla, Tim & Stan & McDog!) They're using some of the stones we brought over from the old house - more recycling.
Right now, the irrigation guys are digging trenches and putting in the sprinklers. Once that is done, the landscaper will come back & do the planting.

Cool ride of the week.26

Big brother Dave is probably mad that we haven't shown a Corvette in the cool rides, so here is a nice one:

Big Dave could have restored this 'Vette, except this one is in Texas.

Moving day!

Well, gang, the Insomniac Queen managed a few hours' sleep, but today is the day we've been waiting for and when are the movers coming? Oh, it's only 4:30 a.m. Meanwhile, here are some pix of the house, all done. Here's the front - wish I had moved the trash bin. At least they finally removed the Texas Outhouse. We also got some free sod, a companion to the Sidewalk to Nowhere. Everyone is always interested in kitchens. Here is ours, as empty and clean as it will EVER be:

Here's the stairway to our 2,000 sq foot attic (the upstairs).

And here is the master bathroom, downstairs.

Is Denny's open? When are the movers coming?

Go ahead - fence us in

Yesterday, we got a new fence along the back and one side of our yard. Lucky for us, the neighbors will share the cost. Here is some of the prep work.

This is the back of the yard. We chose a taller fence than we had before.
We had extra brick and stone from the house, and our builder had some workers stack it neatly in the back corner of the yard. Where it was directly in the way of the fence guys. So hubby and I got our gloves and moved about a half pallet of brick, along with the stone, about 3 or 4 feet. In the picture below, you can see the pallet it used to be on. We moved those bricks, two by two, into the pile on the right. Those of you who go to the gym - here's a new workout for the whole body: Go out in the hot sun, move a bunch of bricks and stone, and stack them out of the way so somebody can access the area they need. Woof! We lost a couple pounds of sweat on that job.

Here's the finished fence - nice!

God bless those workers who are out in our hot weather every day. They have built us a lovely new home, and we are moving tomorrow!

We'll be off the blog for a few days until we can unpack, and get our internet connection going again.