The New Front Yard!

This past weekend we decided to finally tackle the one project that we've kept putting off -- the front yard.

We rented a Bobcat for the weekend and dug up all the gravel from half of our driveway loop, and added it to the remaining side, making the main driveway thicker, and widening it in spots. To accomplish this we had to relocate our street lamp to the edge of our yard and raise the height of the water meter manhole cover.

Then we had to order a dump truck load of topsoil to fill in where the gravel driveway use to be. Although we had a Bobcat, we were unable to spread all of the dirt with it because rain showers earlier in the day had made the ground quite wet and muddy. So we ended up spreading the remaining 10-15 wheel barrel loads of topsoil by hand... exhausting!

Once the topsoil was in place we scattered grass seed and shredded bails of hay to protect the seeds.

And now we wait for grass... :)