Its Coming Along Quite Nicely!

I have not had time to post to the blog in the past few weeks. Even that last post, I forgot to publish it and did not have time to add any pictures to it. Today, I really don't have time either, but I am letting my fingers flew swiftly over the keyboard to leave you all a quick note of our progress.

I have nearly finished landscaping the border around the house, it looks excellent, and I decided to use many of the rocks and gnarled pieces of wood to decorate with, it looks excellent. I did go buy some greenery and lots of garlic...I also took some of my potted plants off the porch and added them to the mix as well. I just love it!

Andy has fixed the trampoline...again. It has seen better days, but it is still in one piece and it is now soundly anchored to the ground by cement posts. We also put a light on the side of the garage to shine on it at night if the boys want to jump on warm summer evenings. Totally cool!

Andy also put up a beautiful light post that our good friend Tom gave to us as a house warming gift. It is...STUNNING! He poured a cement foundation for it on the center island in our driveway. Its just...in a word...KILLER! Unfortunately, I don't have a picture of that yet, but I will get one! (This is a picture of my boys helping dig a trench to run conduit to the light post.)

I am still placing stepping stones around the house, that is time consuming, but once finished, its gonna look GREAT!

The wind has not been kind to our new palms trees, but once they start growing, we can trim them up and they will look good again. I just love the look we are coming up with, its a combination of tropial island oasis and southwest-ranch, really unique and fun!

Jenny is getting better and better at hunting rabbits. In fact, I think she has discovered several dens...she comes home covered in dirt and bringing us several "prizes" a week. It was never my intention to be a rabbit-hater, and I know they are God's little creatures, but I sure wish they would go somewhere else and thrive in one of the many open fields elsewhere in the valley. I still wake up to find that they have destroyed yet another plant or flower...even if they don't eat it, they just tear it apart and leave it on the ground. They have removed several stalks off of our birds of paradise, and there is virtually nothing left of my baby palms on the driveway.

Anyway, we are about 19 days away from the wedding. All of the big projects are done, so we are down to finishing touches and organization. I really should get back to work. More to come! Stay tuned!