Adventures in Landscaping!

Well, I guess you could say we are settling in..we just had over 500 sq feet of cement slab poured in the back yard for our patio...took the crew a couple days...Looks awesome...we have inked a deal for an alumawood patio cover, they will be here starting Sept. 21st, after our cruise, and should take 3-4 days....which means by the end of the month we will have a covered patio. When it cools off a little more, in October, we will start figuring out sod, we are going to do bermuda grass since that is what seems to do best here in the desert...and then a garden wall along the back fence, which Carl and I can do....some citrus trees, a couple of crepe myrtles, some perennials, and the queen palms, and we will be styling. Pool to come possibly next year..

FALL is in the air...

Whatever that means!

I feel fall is in the air..I know its out there, in this desert heat, it is THERE. It's getting dark earlier now...

We are having the first step in our backyard landscape started tomorrow with 560 square feet of cement being formed and poured for back patios off the master bedroom and continuing over to the family room...will be HUGE and wonderful to not have all D.I.R.T. The cement crew is coming tomorrow and by the weekend we should be able to put our nice little table out back on our new cement slab. We are in the process of getting estimates for an alumawood patio cover which will help so much next summer with the morning sun..keeping the house cooler and some shade for the doglets...

I have been feeling better...my new dr. here has started me on a new estrogen patch for those blasted hot flashes...started the patch on Monday, also taking some new thyroid meds so hoping the combo will help me feel better. I have bad days, but now I have a few good thrown in there...we got the mobile home sold in WA and that has taken a huge load off our shoulders and now we feel we can actually settle in and make a nice home here for us and family and friends to visit.

Over and out for now...

A wonderful post from Thrifty Decor Chick...on being a Momma!

This just touched my heart...so true and not a day goes by that I don't pray and worry about the boys and my beautiful daughter in law...I love you all!